A/HRC/42/43/Add.1 protected under the Covenant. In addition, it is a party to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its Optional Protocol; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance; and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol. It is also party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol on a communications procedure. The State is a signatory to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and a party to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 12. Moreover, Uruguay is a party to fundamental International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions, including the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29); the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105); the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87); the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98); the Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100); the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111); the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138); the Paid Educational Leave Convention, 1974 (No. 140); and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182). It is also party to the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), the Nursing Personnel Convention, 1977 (No. 149) and the Invalidity, Old-Age and Survivors’ Benefits Convention, 1967 (No. 128). 13. The country is not a party to the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169). It has also not ratified a number of other ILO conventions relevant to older persons, including the Maintenance of Social Security Rights Convention, 1982 (No. 157); the Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160); the Employment Promotion and Protection against Unemployment Convention, 1988 (No. 168); and the Protection of Workers’ Claims (Employer’s Insolvency) Convention, 1992 (No. 173). 14. As a Member of the Organization of American States (OAS), Uruguay is held to the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, and its human rights policies and practices are monitored by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The Commission may decide on complaints against the State and may also hold hearings or issue reports on the human rights situation there. Uruguay has accepted the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which may issue binding judgments concerning alleged abuses. 15. At the regional level, Uruguay has ratified the American Convention on Human Rights and its Additional Protocol in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Protocol of San Salvador), the Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities, the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons, the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women, the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, and the Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Related Forms of Intolerance. 16. Uruguay was the first member State of OAS to deposit the instrument of ratification of the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons, on 18 November 2016. At the hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights held on 6 December 2018 on the human rights of older persons, regarding that convention and its follow-up mechanism, Uruguay stressed the need for follow-up mechanisms on the human rights of older persons and urged other member States to ratify the Convention. 7 17. In 1991, the Treaty establishing a Common Market between the Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (Treaty of Asunción) was signed, establishing the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR). The Parliament of MERCOSUR includes a Commission on Citizenship and Human Rights. 7 4 See www.oas.org/es/cidh/audiencias/TopicsList.aspx?Lang=en&Topic=27.