A/HRC/50/9 140. The following recommendations will be examined by Zimbabwe, which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the fiftieth session of the Human Rights Council: 140.1 Continue to take steps towards the ratification of outstanding international human rights instruments (Malawi); 140.2 Ratify outstanding treaties, conventions and agreements (Nigeria); 140.3 Ratify all core human rights treaties to safeguard political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights (Norway); 140.4 Ratify pending international human rights conventions (Costa Rica); 140.5 Consider ratifying international instruments to which Zimbabwe is not yet a party, including the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Djibouti); 140.6 Ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Japan); 140.7 Ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Sierra Leone); 140.8 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Mexico); 140.9 Accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Togo); 140.10 Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Montenegro); 140.11 Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Argentina); 140.12 Strengthen efforts to ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (Niger); 140.13 Speed up the process of ratifying the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, which is still under consideration (South Sudan); 140.14 Finalize the ratification of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (Democratic Republic of the Congo); 140.15 Ratify the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) of the International Labour Organization (Denmark); 140.16 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Sierra Leone); 140.17 Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (Mali); 140.18 Consider ratifying the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Senegal); 140.19 Intensify efforts to ratify outstanding international treaties and protocols, including the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Optional Protocol (Ghana); 17