A/HRC/22/9 Rights Council in March 2013. The responses will be included in the outcome report adopted by the Human Rights Council at the same meeting: 107.1 Ratify the Kampala amendments to the Rome Statute (Liechtenstein). 108. The recommendations listed below have been examined by and enjoy the support of Benin: 108.1 Consider an early ratification of the Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communication procedure (Slovakia); 108.2 Publish in the Official Journal all international and regional human rights treaties once they are ratified or acceded to by Benin, for their dissemination (Uruguay); 108.3 Maintain its positive efforts in the current process of reviewing its national laws with a view to bringing them in line with its international human rights obligations (Egypt); 108.4 Amend the draft Criminal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure to bring it into line with the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the abolition of the death penalty and adopt them as soon as possible and initiate an awareness campaign so that the public in Benin are aware of the impact of these changes (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); 108.5 Identify, revise or repeal all provisions of the Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code which are in conflict with the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the abolition of the death penalty (Uruguay); 108.6 Implement the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights into domestic law as soon as practicable (Australia); 108.7 Remove all reference to the death penalty in the Penal Code and commute all death sentences into alternative sentences (France); 108.8 Abolish entirely the death penalty from its legislation (Italy); 108.9 Ensure that the Criminal Code is brought into line with the Second Optional Protocol of the ICCPR in respect of the abolition of the death penalty (Spain); 108.10 Take measures necessary to define and criminalize torture in the forthcoming Criminal Code (France); 108.11 Establish a legal framework for the national preventive mechanism against torture and lobby for the passage of the bill to establish a national observatory for the prevention of torture (United States of America); 108.12 Keep on efforts both on legal and procedural grounds to improve conditions of detention and to speed up the adoption of the draft criminal code (Egypt); 108.13 Make every effort to speed up the process of adoption of the drafts of the children’s code and the law on gender equality and women’s participation (Algeria); GE.12-18655 15