A/HRC/WG.6/5/L.1 Page 26 2. Sign (United Kingdom)/Sign and ratify (France) the CAT and its Optional Protocol (OP-CAT); in order to provide a further disincentive against torture by the security forces and police (United Kingdom); 3. Rapidly accede to (France)/Consider ratifying (Argentina) the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance; and accept the competence of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (Argentina); 4. Ratify (Portugal)/Consider ratifying (Argentina)/Accede to (Azerbaijan) the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Aimed at the Abolition of the Death Penalty (ICCPR-OP 2); 5. Consider ratifying the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights; the OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa; the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons; the Convention on the Nationality of Married Women; international conventions on apartheid; and OP-CAT (Argentina); 6. Give tangible form to its wish to refurbish the National Human Rights Commission (Democratic Republic of the Congo); 7. Establish a national commission for human rights, with sufficient guarantees of independence and adequate material and human resources, which would work in close cooperation with the United Nations (Spain); 8. Speed up its efforts to ensure the proper functioning of the National Human Rights Commission in accordance with the Paris Principles (Ghana); 9. Adapt internal legislation to international standards regarding national human rights institutions, including the Paris Principles (Argentina); 10. Avail itself of technical assistance offered by OHCHR to submit its overdue reports (Algeria); 11. Respond to the Human Rights Committee’s request to submit information within one year on the follow-up given to its recommendations in 2005 on female genital mutilation (Portugal);

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