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Consider developing, in consultation with Parliament and civil society, a policy framework to guide practices and procedures concerning international treaty processes that creates rights and obligations under international law

Adopt a national action plan on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000)

Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

Take all appropriate measures to ensure children’s equal access to quality education, including, when possible, education in their own language

Adopt measures based on the principle of gender equality that protect women’s rights and safety and punish any discriminatory or harmful practice against them

Lift its reservations on the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, with a view to amending the policy of holding asylum seekers and refugees in camps and to providing them with work permits and decent job opportunities

Take steps to amend the definition of “discrimination” in order to include gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression as grounds within it

Fight discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons

Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Ratify the international human rights instruments to which Canada is not yet a party

Consider acceding to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

Adhere to and/or ratify those international human rights instruments to which it is not yet a party, in particular the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) of the International Labour Organization (ILO)

Amend the Marriage Act and maintain a minimum legal age of marriage at 18 without exceptions

Consider ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Uphold all its obligations under applicable international law as an occupying power in the illegally occupied territories

Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in its 2020 version, including the Kampala amendments on the crime of aggression, and review its national legislation in order to ensure full alignment with the Statute

Grant international human rights monitoring bodies full access to all federal subjects of the Russian Federation and territories under its effective control

Intensify internal coordination related to accession to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure

Consider the possibility of ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and align its national legislation

Stop the use of corruptive means to foster Azerbaijan’s conflict perception in different international organizations

Collaborate fully with the European Court of Human Rights regarding the application on the case of Hayk Makuchyan and Samvel Minasyan v. Azerbaijan and Hungary

Ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and both its optional protocols

Condemn the repeated and unpunished use of inflammatory warmongering language by high-level politicians speaking about Armenia and the Armenians and its adverse impact on public views

Stop falsifying statistics on internally displaced persons and refugees by applying a misleading methodology of accounting

Ensure that foreigners with Armenian surnames are not denied access to the country on arbitrary and discriminatory bases

Ratify the Second Optional Protocol of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights

Proceed with the abolition of the death penalty by ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty

Abolish the death penalty from its legislation definitively and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights