A/HRC/28/16 II. Conclusions and/or recommendations** 166. The following recommendations will be examined by Egypt, which will respond in due course, but no later than the twenty-eighth session of the Human Rights Council in March 2015: 166.1 Sign the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR (ICCPR-OP2) (Turkey); 166.2 Consider ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Rwanda); 166.3 Ratify ICCPR-OP2 and abolish the death penalty (Portugal); 166.4 Ratify ICCPR-OP2 (Sierra Leone); (Chile); 166.5 Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OP-CAT) (Gabon); 166.6 Ratify the Rome Statute of the ICC (Chile); (Estonia); (Slovenia); (Tunisia); (Uruguay); 166.7 Ratify the OP-CAT; (Chile); (Czech Republic); (Sierra Leone); (Switzerland); (Togo); (Tunisia); 166.8 Ratify the Optional Protocol to CAT (Austria); 166.9 Withdraw its reservations to CAT (arts. 21 and 22) and ratify OPCAT without reservations (Portugal); 166.10 Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED) (Sierra Leone); (Togo); (Tunisia); 166.11 Ratify ICPPED (Portugal); 166.12 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Chile); (Gabon); (Niger); (Uruguay); 166.13 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Niger); 166.14 Review and withdraw reservation to articles 2 and 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (Slovenia); 166.15 Withdraw its reservations to CEDAW and ratify the Optional Protocol to CEDAW (Ghana); 166.16 Consider the withdrawal of reservations to CEDAW Convention (Latvia); 166.17 Consider withdrawing its reservations on the CEDAW articles 2 and 16 , accede to the Optional Protocol to CEDAW (OP-CEDAW) and consider taking the requisite measures as the upper guardian of its citizen’s rights, freedoms and interests by eliminating all forms of discrimination against women in decision-making and public life (Namibia); 166.18 Review the personal status legislation and the Penal Code in order to modify or delete articles that discriminate against women, to comply with the ** Conclusions and recommendations will not be edited. 13

Select target paragraph3

Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents