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Continue the process to ratify CEDAW and adhere to the other human rights fundamental instruments, such as the Statute of Rome of the International Criminal Court, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons against Enforced Disappearance

Ratify, until the next universal periodic review, ICESCR, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Protocols I and II of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, ILO Conventions no. 87 - on freedom of association - and no. 98 - on the right to collective bargaining - as well as withdraw the reservation made to article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Ratify ICESCR and its Optional Protocol, the first Optional Protocol to the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, CEDAW, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

Ratify ICESCR

Consider ratifying CEDAW, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Ratify at its earliest opportunity other core human rights instruments, particularly, those to which it is already a signatory, namely CEDAW, Convention on the Rights of the Child, ICESCR, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Endeavour to ratify international instruments that USA is not party, in particular among others the CRC, OP-CAT, CEDAW, and Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Ensure the implementation of its obligations under international humanitarian law vis-a-vis Palestinian people

Ensure the implementation of its obligations under international humanitarian law

Accede to ICESCR, the CRC and ILO convention No. 111

Become a party to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Legislate appropriate regulations to prevent the violations of individual privacy, constant intrusion in and control of cyberspace as well as eavesdropping of communications, by its intelligence and security organizations

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

Withdraw all reservations and declarations on the international instruments to which it is a party that undermine its obligations or the purpose of the treaty

Spare no efforts to constantly evaluate the enforcement of the immigration federal legislation, with a vision of promoting and protecting human rights

Review its laws at the Federal and State levels with a view to bringing them in line with its international human rights obligations

End blockade against Cuba

Take legislative and administrative measures to ban racial profiling in law enforcement

Establish, at all levels, a moratorium on executions with a view to completely abolish the death penalty

Attempt to restrain any state initiative which approaches immigration issues in a repressive way towards the migrant community and that violates its rights by applying racial profiling, criminalizing undocumented immigration and violating the human and civil rights of persons

Take appropriate legislative and practical measures to prevent racial bias in the criminal justice system

Extend a standing invitation to all special procedures

Abolish the death penalty

Consider taking further action to better ensure gender equality at work

Continue its intense efforts to undertake all necessary measures to ensure fair and equal treatment of all persons, without regard to sex, race, religion, colour, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability, and encourage further steps in this regard

Repeal and do not enforce discriminatory and racial laws such as Law SB 1070 of the State of Arizona

End the discrimination against persons of African descent

Study the possibility for the Federal Government of campaigning in favour of applying the United Nations Moratorium on the death penalty