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Continue to strengthen efforts to increase women’s participation at all formal decision-making levels

Prioritize gender equality, as well as increase women’s participation at all levels of social, political and economic decision-making in government

Adhere to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and adopt the necessary measures for its correct and comprehensive implementation

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

Prioritize work to eliminate violence against women, and to improve gender equality, including in relation to property and employment

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

Continue taking steps towards the setting up of an interministerial committee for the promotion and protection of women’s 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)

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

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

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

Facilitate full access to Xinjiang and Tibet for all relevant United Nations special procedures

Ensure full transparency on the situation for religious minorities in Xinjiang, including by allowing United Nations-mandated observers unrestricted access to places of internment in the region

Grant the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the special procedures access to all regions of China

Close all “re-education centres” in Uighur areas and facilitate the visits by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the special procedures in Xinjiang

Cooperate with and provide access to relevant United Nations bodies to help ensure that its policies in Xinjiang, particularly regarding the so-called “vocational education and training centres”, are in line with international human rights standards

Intensify efforts to promote and fully ensure the rights of women, children and persons with disabilities

Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights with a view to definitely abolishing the death penalty

Accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to prevent reintroduction of the death penalty

Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and reform the Constitution in order to prohibit the death penalty and establish, until that time, an indefinite moratorium

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

Ratify the Kampala amendments to the Rome Statute

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

Draw up and publish a national plan of action, implementing recommendations from the Committee against Torture in 2018

Strengthen its cooperation with the bodies of the Council and the various international instruments, including the special procedures, notably by accepting the visit of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

Adapt the Code of Penal Procedure to international standards and amend articles 109 and 117 on “activities against the State” in the Penal Code, in line with human rights standards