A/HRC/48/17 138. The delegation reported that in 2020, the National Disaster Management Agency, which addressed environment risks, waste management and uncontrolled urbanization, had been launched. 139. On the issue of child and human trafficking, the Anti-Human Trafficking Act 2005 was under review. 140. Regarding COVID-19, the Government had provided medical equipment, social protection programmes, and support to households with vulnerable persons, to respond to the pandemic. 141. With respect to land issues, the new National Land Policy was designed to safeguard tenure rights, ensure equal access to land and protect the rights of all citizens without discrimination. 142. The delegation expressed the intention of Sierra Leone to seek the views and support of its people regarding the recommendations received during its third universal periodic review. Therefore, Sierra Leone would carefully examine all the recommendations received and would indicate its position by the next session of the Human Rights Council, in September 2021. Sierra Leone would continue to fulfil its commitment to promoting and protecting human rights, using the universal periodic review mechanism as a critical tool to interact with recommendations and with global commitments such as the Sustainable Development Goals. Finally, the delegation called upon the international community, development partners and civil society organizations to remain engaged with Sierra Leone as it moved towards the next stage in the current review cycle. II. Conclusions and/or recommendations 143. The following recommendations will be examined by Sierra Leone, which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the forty-eighth session of the Human Rights Council: 143.1 Take the necessary steps to ratify international legal instruments on human rights which it has not yet ratified (Niger); 143.2 Accelerate the domestication of provisions of the human rights treaties to which it is a party (Zimbabwe); 143.3 Consider accession to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Armenia); Make progress towards ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Chile); 143.4 Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Argentina) (Czechia) (France) (Japan) (Malawi); 143.5 Make progress towards ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Chile); 143.6 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Czechia) (Denmark) (Finland) (Montenegro); 143.7 Promote prompt ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and make progress in the establishment of a national mechanism for the prevention of torture (Uruguay); Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and designate a national preventive mechanism accordingly (Armenia); 143.8 Consider ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death 10