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Continue the adoption of measures required for the protection of human rights defenders in Colombia

Continue the implementation of the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace between the National Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army

Continue the peace negotiation process with the National Liberation Army

Initiate the second phase of the National Plan on Business and Human Rights

Continue the promotion of a culture on human rights, as an indispensable base for a real reconciliation.

Canada voluntarily commits to strengthening intergovernmental collaboration and public dialogue on human rights, through the development of a protocol for following up on the recommendations Canada receives from international human rights bodies and a stakeholder engagement strategy

Canada also commits to enhancing our federal-provincial-territorial collaboration on human rights implementation through the creation of a senior intergovernmental mechanism

Canada also commits to holding future federal-provincial-territorial human rights ministerial meetings.

To conduct human rights analyses to support the implementation of our international human rights obligations

To improve the promotion and public awareness of international human rights in Canada

To initiate a transparent process for ongoing consideration by federal, provincial and territorial governments of adherence to human rights treaties that Canada is not yet a party to

To continue to take legislative and other steps to progressively realize the right to adequate housing as part of an adequate standard of living for its citizens

To end, by March 2021, all long-term drinking water advisories affecting public systems on reserve

To co-developing distinctions-based Indigenous housing strategies with First Nations, Inuit and Métis partners to ensure that future housing reform is reflective of their specific needs

To continuing to improve services delivered to Indigenous Peoples — such as education, clean water, housing, and health services. We aim to achieve this through: the full implementation of Jordan’s Principle to ensure that First Nations children receive the same health and social services and supports as other Canadian children; the full implementation of all the orders of the Canadian Human Rights and the co-development transformation of the delivery of Indigenous child welfare.

Argentina reaffirms its commitment to continue strengthening the protection of human rights at a universal and regional level, and also to preserve and strengthen the role of NGOs in the promotion and defence of human rights.

Argentina will promote the adoption by the Human Rights Council of a declaration on the right to truth and memory.

In the same line, Argentina pledges to recognize the competence of the Committee under the International Convention for the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

Although there are no cases of torture in the Kingdom, Bahrain's steadfast desire to enhance the professionalism of law enforcement personnel has prompted it to ask the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for assistance in developing and improving human rights curricula and training courses.

Awareness-raising and support for the full participation of civil society, beginning with follow-up to the consideration of Bahrain's report in April 2008.

Bahrain affirms its willingness to cooperate with the Committee against Torture on the implementation of article 20 of the Convention.

Bahrain affirms that it will include information in its future reports on the outcome of the universal periodic review and its impact on the human rights situation on the ground.

Bahrain is committed to contributing to the current process of human rights standard-setting at the United Nations and to participating in United Nations human rights forums where human rights standards are discussed (for example, the Forum on Minority Issues, which is due to meet in Geneva in September 2008).

Bahrain is committed to establishing a national human rights institution at the earliest opportunity, bearing in mind the relevant United Nations resolutions and, in particular, the Paris Principles. In fact, in November 2007, the Cabinet issued a decision on the establishment of a national human rights institution. Once the institution has been established, it is expected to design a national action plan for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Kingdom.

Bahrain is currently examining the idea of creating an inter-ministerial human rights mechanism to guarantee the implementation of the recommendations made by the international treaty bodies to which Bahrain reports.

In the pledges that it will make to the Human Rights Council during the 2008 elections, Bahrain will confirm its adoption of "good practices".

Bahrain is fully committed to supporting non-governmental organizations through legal and other instruments so as to develop a constructive dialogue with these organizations and other stakeholders.

Argentina commits itself to put into practice the mechanism contained in the Optional Protocol of the Convention against Torture and to continue the implementation of the National Plan to Combat Discrimination in all its aspects, and also to promote the second stage of the National Plan of Human Rights

Creation of an effective mechanism to deal with cases of neglect by private sector institutions of workers' housing.

Law enforcement agencies will increase the number of training courses and workshops that they run on the protection and promotion of human rights.