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Establish a moratorium on all executions and eventually abolish the death penalty

Enact the anti-torture bill

Passing of the Anti-Torture Bill and efforts to hold accountable all those committing acts of torture and ensure timely and adequate compensations to victims

The Parliament to dismiss the proposed Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009

Enact the Marriage and Divorce Bill

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OP-CAT)

Accept visit requests from the UN Special Rapporteurs and the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights

Ensure the passage of the Anti-Discrimination Act

Include in the Anti-discrimination Law a specific prohibition on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation

Accede to the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption

Take the measures necessary to amend the Penal Code in such a way that the use of a child between 16 and 18 for prostitution is prohibited

Introduce legislation, uniformly across the Confederation, that explicitly protects LGBT persons from discrimination, and take into account the issues faced by LGBT persons when creating a general act on equal treatment

Increase assistance to developing countries, up to the level of 0.7 per cent of GNP, in line with UN recommendations

Increase the level of its contribution of official development assistance to reach at least the threshold of 0.7 percent of GNP

Ratify ICRMW

Investigate cases of disproportionate use of force by police during arrests, custody and interrogations of suspects in particular migrants

Give full and effective implementation to the national campaign to reduce violence against children and women in order to further reduce the occurrence of rape and domestic violence, sexual harassment, child abuse including in educational institutions and child marriage

Implement Recommendation 2010/5 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, in particular the issues regarding freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly

Abolish the death penalty and ratify ICCPR and its Second Optional Protocol

Enact a law criminalizing domestic violence and providing specific penalties for cases of domestic violence

Ratify ICCPR and its Second Optional Protocol

Ratify the Rome Statue and ensure its full implementation in national legislation

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

Withdraw all reservations to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Release of all prisoners of conscience

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

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

Establish national legislation to implement the provisions of the Convention on Refugees

Effectively ban torture in all its forms and ratify the OP-CAT

Evaluate regulations and laws, including those which grant the Orthodox Rabbinate the right to determine policies affecting non-Orthodox Jews and non Jews, to ensure that they do not discriminate against persons, especially women, based on their religious beliefs or lack thereof