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Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

Reconsider ratifying the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, including accepting the competence of the Committee as regards the inquiry procedure

Ratify the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) of the International Labour Organization (ILO)

Ratify the 2014 ILO Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29)

Consider accession to the remaining core human rights conventions

Continue its consideration of ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure

Become a party to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure

Continue to implement measures to increase the representation of women in leadership positions in the public and private sectors, and to eliminate the gender pay gap

Continue to strengthen policies and measures in the area of women’s empowerment and the promotion of equal opportunities for employment and wages at the national level

Reconsider the relevant legal acts in the part relating to the age of criminal responsibility, with a view to its possible increase

Collaborate more closely with the private sector and other relevant organizations and associations to find ways to remove structural or policy barriers that can impede women from contributing more in the workplace and in all sectors

Make efforts to extend childcare services to promote women’s social and economic participation

Continue its efforts to further the protection of economic and social rights of vulnerable persons, including persons with disabilities

Formulate and implement effective policies geared towards the elimination of poverty

Continue efforts to increase the availability of adequate and affordable housing for all segments of society while paying particular attention to low-income families

Facilitate women’s access to legal aid, in particular for Māori women, migrant women and women from ethnic minorities, as well as women living in rural and remote areas

Increase employment opportunities for marginalized groups, and notably Māori, Pasifika, women and persons with disabilities

Remove abortion from the Crimes Act 1961 and review the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977 to ensure that abortion is decriminalized in all circumstances, and all women and girls can access safe and legal abortion as an integrated component of sexual and reproductive health services, in reference also to the adoption of targets 3.7 and 5.6 of the Sustainable Development Goals

Review the laws pertaining to the criminal offences of insulting the Crown and offending religious feelings, and review organic law 9/1983 and the organic law on citizen security with the objective of protecting the rights of freedom of expression and peaceful assembly

Progress in the full recognition of the right to peaceful assembly, in accordance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Ensure full respect for the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, to participation in public affairs and to freedom of expression, ensuring that all measures aimed at controlling protests and peaceful assemblies are in line with its international obligations

Ensure respect of the right of freedom of expression, in line with international and European standards

Establish juvenile courts distinct from those of adults

Fight all forms of discrimination against women belonging to ethnic and religious minorities

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture

Ratify-consider ratifying the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

End the occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories and other Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan.

Immediately cease its military operations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and lift the closure and seizure it imposes on the Gaza Strip

Immediately release all Palestinian, Syrian and other Arab prisoners and detainees