A/HRC/27/15 122.81 Continue its efforts to provide development and humanitarian aid to least developed countries (Yemen); 122.82 Strengthen its international cooperation development of the countries of the South (Somalia); 122.83 for the sustainable Continue its humanitarian role and its role in development (Kuwait); 122.84 Continue to play an effective and positive role at the regional and international levels (Sudan). 123. The following recommendations enjoy the support of Qatar, which considers them to be already implemented or in the process of implementation: 123.1 Strengthen the independence of the National Human Rights Committee by limiting the role of government appointees (Ghana); 123.2 Strengthen the capacity of the National Human Rights Committee in the area of impartial monitoring, investigation, and reception of allegations of torture or ill-treatment (Mexico); 123.3 Significantly improve the implementation of protective measures contained in labour laws, in particular by increasing the number of labour inspectors (Belgium); 123.4 Make adequate labour conditions and decent work an important criterion for granting building contracts and permits and actively improve the enforcement of labour laws, including by applying penalties to and blacklisting contractors who violate the relevant laws and decrees (Netherlands); 123.5 Adopt the necessary measures to guarantee the access of migrant workers to justice in civil, criminal and labour courts, as well as to assistance and consular protection (Mexico); 123.6 Step up its efforts to protect the rights of migrant workers and fight against exploitation, ill-treatment and abuse by their employers (Slovenia); 123.7 Ensure that the hotline established to respond to migrant workers’ complaints provides appropriate interpretation, to the extent possible (Thailand); 123.8 Harmonize the work of charitable organizations with the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (Syrian Arab Republic). 124. The following recommendations will be examined by Qatar, which will provide responses in due course, but no later than the twenty-seventh session of the Human Rights Council in September 2014: 124.1 Ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Rome Statute, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (France); 124.2 Consider ratifying those international human rights instruments to which the State is not yet a party (Nicaragua); 124.3 Consider acceding to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Turkmenistan); 19

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