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

Acknowledge-recognize, accept and fully implement the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the wall.

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

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and take the measures necessary to comply with its provisions

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography

Ratify the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime Palermo Protocol

Ensure that family reunification takes place without undue delay

Given the current constitutional review, fully incorporate the principle of equality between men and women and adopt a legal definition of gender-based discrimination, without overlooking to establish legislation which provides for the right to equal pay for work of equal value between men and women

Increase its official development aid to reach the international norm of 0.7 per cent of GDP

Establish strategies across all sectors, in particular health, education and justice, to identify and remedy structural discrimination

Consider policies in relation to gender mainstreaming, adequacy of housing and access to buildings for persons with disabilities in the post-recovery efforts of the Canterbury earthquakes

Set targets for increasing Maori participation in policing, the judiciary and the penal system

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture

Strengthen criminal legislation aimed at strengthening the fight against racism and intolerance and ensure their compliance

Set up an effective format for introducing a dialogue with representatives of minorities, acquiring comprehensive information on their problems and needs, developing and implementing, in consultation with them, policies and programmes to improve their situation, as well as to prevent and eradicate racial discrimination against them

Take further steps to create better work opportunities for the members of minority groups

Provide additional funding for the protection of religious minorities

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

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

Continue to work to enhance the rights of Māori and other indigenous minority groups in New Zealand, and provide increased rehabilitative support for Māori prisoners

Adopt an appropriate procedure so that, in the future, any law or legislative reform is subject to a prior analysis of its impact on human rights

Strengthen the availability of legal assistance for women, especially for Māori and migrant women

Intensify further the efforts in the area of the fight against trafficking in persons, including improving the practice of enforcing legislation with a view to bringing to justice and punishing those responsible for trafficking in persons under the articles on trafficking

Step up efforts to prevent and combat all forms of discrimination, especially in the criminal justice system

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

Strengthen measures aimed at combating discrimination against different groups in a situation of vulnerability, investigating and punishing the perpetrators of such acts

Take immediate steps to combat solitary and solitary confinement in medical facilities applied to juveniles, persons with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers in prison and in all health care institutions

Open effective channels of appeal to individuals for measures taken during the state of emergency

Promote the investigation of all allegations of extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances, guaranteeing that all those responsible are brought to justice