A/HRC/25/6 II. Conclusions and/or recommendations** 134. The recommendations formulated during the interactive dialogue and listed below have been examined by Nigeria. 135. The following recommendations enjoy the support of Nigeria: 135.1. Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (Portugal); 135.2. Continue the process of ratifying those human rights instruments to which Nigeria is not yet a State party (Benin); 135.3. Step up its efforts in pursuing the ratification of other relevant international human rights instruments (Philippines); 135.4. Consider ratifying the outstanding human rights instruments and further update domestic laws to be in line with those articles (Lesotho); 135.5. Continue the process of ratifying international human rights instruments that it is not yet a party to (Burkina Faso); 135.6. Consider the ratification of International Labour Organization Convention No. 169 (Mexico); 135.7. Ensure the enactment of the bill on the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (Brazil); 135.8. Incorporate in national legislation the international human rights legal instruments to which Nigeria has acceded (Burkina Faso); 135.9. Reinforce anti-corruption laws (Côte d’Ivoire); 135.10. Bring its national legislation fully in line with the Rome Statute and to ratify the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities (Estonia); 135.11. Redouble efforts in harmonization of the legal system of the country (Ethiopia); 135.12. Take further measures to implement the 2010 recommendations by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, especially related to the domestication of the CRC; the right of the child to education, nutrition and health, and protecting girls from early marriage (Finland); 135.13. Adopt legislative and practical measures to combat accusations against children for witchcraft by, inter alia, criminalizing the witchcraft accusations, providing protection to children; and by awareness-raising, including in cooperation with civil society (Finland); 135.14. Ensure international conventions are streamlined in domestic laws (France); 135.15. Incorporate into municipal law various instruments such as the Optional Protocol on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Ghana); 135.16. Speed up the process of adopting laws that coincide with treaties that Nigeria has recently ratified (Iraq); ** Conclusions and recommendations have not been edited. 14

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