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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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