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Fulfil its obligations arising from accession to the Convention against Torture, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Cooperate and meet its obligations in the area of human rights with the United Nations agencies, mechanisms and committees in order to facilitate their activities and the implementation of their programmes

Develop the operational mechanisms of human rights commissions and agencies in accordance with the best international standards

Raise the level of political awareness and disseminate a culture of political participation

Make comprehensive efforts at the national level to protect the rights of workers by taking the necessary institutional and legislative steps

Continue efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those that have a bearing on human rights

Enact the bill concerning persons with disabilities and the information bill.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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.

Implement obligations under the Optional Protocol to CAT, ensuring the establishment of one or various independent national preventive mechanisms

To examine the possibility of modifying the declarations made by the French Government on articles 13 and 14 (5) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

To favour actively the rapid completion of negotiations on an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights so that all the rights recognized by the Covenant may be included in individual communications

Continuation and strengthening of measures aimed at promoting equality between men and women

Development of a comprehensive and uniform compensation policy for the displaced and dispossessed.

Stepping up action to eliminate discrimination against women, violence against women and the practice of female genital mutilation

Initiation, in 2007, of a review process in Mali within the framework of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) African Peer Review Mechanism

Provision of support for the implementation of the Ten-Year Justice Development Programme (PRODEJ) and other programmes for the promotion and protection of human rights