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35.213
Continue efforts to develop procedures for responding to immigrants
who are minors and unaccompanied children, in order to achieve their best
interests (Tunisia);
35.214
Strengthen efforts to protect the rights of migrant children, in line with
recommendations made by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (Ireland);
35.215
Guarantee the protection of the human rights of migrant children,
respecting their integrity and dignity (Nicaragua);
35.216
Adopt measures to ensure that an individual assessment is carried out
for each case of asylum, deportation or expulsion, with full respect for the
principle of non-refoulement (Afghanistan);
35.217
Take concrete action for the international legal protection of the
human rights of refugees and asylum seekers (El Salvador);
35.218
Continue to strengthen and improve the processes for accommodating
asylum seekers with an independent and thorough examination of their asylum
applications and an effective appeal process (Fiji).
36.
The following recommendations will be examined by Belgium, which will provide
responses in due time, but no later than the forty-eighth session of the Human Rights
Council:
36.1
Ratify the core human rights treaties, including the Optional Protocol
to the Convention against Torture (Kazakhstan);
36.2
Become a party to the International Convention on the Protection of
the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and to the
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Azerbaijan);
36.3
Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of
All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Optional Protocol
to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment, and establish a national preventive mechanism as a
matter of priority (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela);
36.4
Consider ratifying the International Convention on the Protection of
the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Argentina);
36.5
Ratify the Framework Convention for the Protection of National
Minorities (Switzerland);
36.6
Ensure that the Federal Institute for the Protection and Promotion of
Human Rights is allocated all competencies in line with the Paris Principles
(Germany);
36.7
Reform the federal human rights institution so that it is fully compliant
with the Paris Principles and all human rights issues are within its mandate,
including regional competencies and cross-cutting issues (Lithuania);
36.8
Establish a national mechanism for accountability and reparations
regarding the grave violations committed by Belgium in the colonial era (Syrian
Arab Republic);
36.9
Strengthen protection against hate crimes by eliminating distinctions
between types of hate speech online, standardizing the legal interpretation of
hate as an aggravating factor for crime and strengthening the collection of
disaggregated data on hate offences (Australia);
36.10
Devote additional resources to prosecuting hate crimes and countering
discrimination against vulnerable groups, in particular Muslims, LGBTQI+
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