A/HRC/15/7 96.35. Develop additional programmes to strengthen its alternative child care facilities (Slovakia)1; 96.36. Continue to exercise its sovereign right of implementing its laws and legislation in conformity with the universally agreed human rights standards and norms, and further resist any attempts to enforce values and principles alien to those that are internationally agreed (Egypt); 97. The following recommendations enjoy the support of Lesotho, which considers that the recommendations below are either already implemented or in the process of implementation: 97.1. Incorporate international human rights instruments into domestic law, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Australia)2; 97.2. Continue its efforts towards expediting the domestication of its international obligations in the area of human rights into the national legal system (Egypt); 97.3. Integrate the various regional and international human rights instruments to which it is a party into its domestic legislation, particularly concerning torture, the state of prisons, freedom of the press and of assembly, child welfare, gender equality and so on (Chad)3; 97.4. Finalize its reform of the Penal Code as rapidly as possible, and improve conditions of detention, in particular combating prison overcrowding (France); 97.5. Enact the Children’s Protection and Welfare Bill 2004 (Australia); 97.6. Expedite the adoption of the Children’s Protection and Welfare Bill (Brazil); 97.7. Include in the Children’s Protection and Welfare Bill the prevention of the worst forms of child labour and the provision of equal access to education for all children (United States); 97.8. Pass the long-awaited Children’s Protection and Welfare Bill, and pass the necessary legislation to ensure that national legislation is in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Norway); 97.9. Prioritize enacting the draft Children’s Protection and Welfare Bill, ensuring that Convention on the Rights of the Child provisions are fully incorporated into national legislation (United Kingdom); 1 2 3 Recommendation originally read: “Develop additional programmes to strengthen its alternative children care facilities, ending the practice of using the Juvenile Training Centres to detain children as a form of alternative care” (Slovakia). Recommendation originally read: “Incorporate international human rights instruments into domestic law, including the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the Elimination of All Kinds of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child” (Australia). Recommendation originally read: “Integrate the various regional and international human rights instruments to which it is a party into its domestic legislation, particularly concerning the death penalty, torture, the state of prisons, freedom of the press and of assembly, child welfare, gender equality and so on” (Chad). 17

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