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99.
The following recommendations did not enjoy the support, since Lesotho
considers that they are inaccurate and/or factually incorrect:
99.1.
Adopt legislation criminalizing female genital mutilation (Germany)7;
99.2. Adopt measures to eradicate in a definitive manner the practice of
female genital mutilation (Argentina);
99.3. Take the necessary measures to ensure the primacy of civil and
political authority (Netherlands);
99.4. Take all necessary measures to prohibit the use, procuring or offering
of a child for the purpose of the production and trafficking of drugs (Slovenia);
99.5. Draw up plans for the elimination of female genital mutilation
practices (Sudan)8.
100. The following recommendations will be examined by Lesotho, which will
provide responses in due course, but no later than the fifteenth session of the Human
Rights Council, in September 2010:
100.1. Take all necessary steps towards ratifying or acceding to the main
international human rights instruments and treaties which are still outstanding
(Nigeria);
100.2. Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to CAT and the International
Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
(France);
100.3. Remove the reservations it has made to CEDAW (Canada);
100.4. Consider withdrawing reservations to the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and ratifying the
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Brazil); consider
withdrawing its reservation to article 2 of CEDAW, in line with its Constitution
and international human rights instruments (South Africa);
100.5. Sign the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(Ireland);
100.6. Reconsider their reservation from article 2 in the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and ensure that all
discrimination under customary law comes to an end (Norway);
100.7. Withdraw the reservation to article 2 of the Convention on the
Elimination of All Kinds of Discrimination against Women (Slovenia);
100.8. Ratify the following international instruments: OP2-ICCPR, OP-CAT,
CRPD-OP and CED (Argentina);
100.9. Sign and ratify OP-ICESCR, OP-CAT, CRPD-OP and CED (Spain);
7
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Recommendation originally read: “Adopt legislation criminalizing female genital mutilation as well
as to take necessary measures to protect children from hazardous work in the informal sector”
(Germany).
Recommendation originally read: “Draw up plans for combating the threat of HIV/AIDS as well as
for the elimination of female genital mutilation practices” (Sudan).
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