Enact legislation and take effective measures to protect and promote women's rights, especially with regard to forced marriages, honour killings and access to education for all girls.

Investigate thoroughly all acts of violence against women and defenders of women's rights and bring those responsible to justice.

Submit its delayed reports to the Committee against Torture.

Establish a mechanism in order to systematically monitor human rights in the administration of justice and to organise human rights training courses for public officials.

Take extensive and timely steps to ensure the independence of the media free from intimidation and suppression, including through proper implementation of the media law passed in the fall of 2008.

Provide and improve training programmes on human rights for the judiciary, law enforcement personnel and lawyers.

Investigate fully and effectively harassment and attacks on journalists and bring those responsible to justice.

Submit its first periodic report without further delay and ensure full implementation of CEDAW and other international human rights conventions to which Afghanistan is a party.

Enact, with immediate effect, the new Media Law which could help to promote and protect freedom of expression

Enact, with immediate effect, the new Media Law passed by the Lower House of Parliament.

Elaborate a road map to improve prison conditions and to prevent mistreatment of prisoners.

Establish a human rights unit within the Ministry of Justice.

Strengthen the judiciary and make it independent by training judges in order to guarantee effective implementation of the law.

Investigate all allegations with respect to torture and inhuman and degrading treatment by Afghan National Police and the National Directorate of Security.

Launch public information campaigns and work with religious leaders to raise awareness of the legal rights for women and girls guaranteed in Afghanistan's Constitution, including the legal age for marriage.

Intensify its efforts for the promotion of gender equality consistent with the obligations of Afghanistan under CEDAW, including through the review and elimination of laws, customs and practices that lead to discrimination against women and girls, making available effective legal remedies for the victims of discrimination and violence, and actively promoting the participation of women and girls in different fields such as education, labour and political life.

Investigate all cases of arbitrary and illegal detentions with all due diligence.

Enact a media law, in accordance with its international human rights obligations, and continue to professionalize its judiciary, pursue justice in cases of murdered journalists and ensure that the security forces and criminal courts do not punish journalists for controversial reporting, where such punishment has occurred, it is hoped that President Karzai will exercise his right to issue pardon

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and establish its national preventive mechanism accordingly

Establish a moratorium on the use of the death penalty in order to avoid irreparable errors .

Re-establish the moratorium on executions and consider the abolition of the death penalty, as requested by the European Union.

The establishment of an international round table to discuss the interrelation between security and fundamental freedoms.

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture

Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture

Start implementing the plan of action for peace, justice and reconciliation

Ratify the ICCPR-OP2, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty.

Impose a moratorium on the use of the death penalty as a step towards its full abolition.

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and accept the competence of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances

Amend any articles of the Personal Status Law that breach Afghanistan's international obligations or its Constitutional protection of the equal rights of men and women

The Afghan Government sign and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, abolish the death penalty and commute the sentences of those facing execution.