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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);
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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).
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