A/HRC/44/9 142.260 Take further practical steps towards ensuring the inclusion of refugees in all spheres of social, cultural and economic life (Zambia); 142.261 Implement a comprehensive birth registration programme, in order to prevent limitations on the right of minorities to nationality (Mexico). 143. The following recommendations will be examined by Kenya, which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the forty-fourth session of the Human Rights Council: 143.1 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Cyprus); 143.2 Respond to the request of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (Uruguay);2 143.3 Review the 2018 Associations Bill and ensure that NGO laws are in line with the right to freedom of expression (Germany); 143.4 Ensure that a human rights approach is reflected in the Government’s 2020 submission of the reviewed nationally determined contributions (Fiji); 143.5 Consider taking the necessary steps to introduce a de jure moratorium on capital executions with a view to fully abolishing the death penalty, including by ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Italy). 144. The recommendations listed below have been examined by Kenya and have been noted by Kenya: 144.1 Implement all protocols to the Convention on the Protection of the Child, Convention on the Child’s Rights, and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (South Sudan); 144.2 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Honduras); 144.3 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Montenegro); 144.4 Sign and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Uruguay); 144.5 Fully abolish the death penalty and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Spain); 144.6 Formalize its moratorium on executions and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (New Zealand); 144.7 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Sri Lanka); 2 The recommendation, as read out during the interactive dialogue, was: “Extend an open invitation to the special procedure mandate holders of the Human Rights Council, and in particular respond to the request of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.” 23

Select target paragraph3

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