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Ratify CRPD

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

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

Withdraw its declarations on article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and on article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

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

Implement an official support system for working women, contemplating basic issues such as the minimum wage and maternity leave

Establish a national human rights institution, capable of promoting and protecting human rights in the country, and that receives sufficient human and financial resources to guarantee its proper functioning

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

Ratify the 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, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto, the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the Protocol thereto, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees

Ratify the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Adopt an open, merit-based selection process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections

Establish an institution specifically dedicated to promote and protect human rights in the country

Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Kampala amendments thereto

Include an explicit prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the Constitution and amend any other relevant legislation, such as the Administration of Estates Act and the Social Security Act so that same-sex couples enjoy equal rights to heterosexual couples

Ratify the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169)

Establish a national preventive mechanism against torture, in accordance with the obligations contracted

Approve the draft amendment to the Representation of the People Act that would establish a 33 per cent quota of women in the National Assembly

Include specific programmes on combating violence against women in the gender equality framework under the national growth and sustainable development strategy

Respond positively to pending visit requests by the special procedure mandate holders of the Human Rights Council and consider the extension of a standing invitation to all mandate holders

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

Implement all of the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of August 2018 regarding Xinjiang, particularly on putting an end to mass internments in camps, and invite the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and special procedure experts

Before the next universal periodic review cycle, set a clear timeline for ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Ratify the International Labour Organization (ILO) Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) and its 20l4 Protocol

As previously recommended, respond positively to pending visit requests by the special procedure mandate holders of the Human Rights Council and consider the extension of a standing invitation to all special procedure mandate holders