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will use the recommendations made during the review and accepted by Australia to inform
the development of Australia’s National Human Rights Action Plan.
II.
Conclusions and/or recommendations
86.
The following recommendations will be examined by Australia which will
provide responses in due time, but no later than the seventeenth session of the Human
Rights Council in June 2011:
86.1.
Ratify as soon as possible the Optional Protocol to the Convention
against Torture or other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment (OP-CAT) (Republic of Moldova);
86.2.
Speed up the process of the ratification of the OP-CAT (Azerbaijan);
86.3.
Ratify OP-CAT and designate a National Preventive Mechanism for
places of detention (Maldives);
86.4.
As a high priority, ratify OP-CAT and establish a National
Preventative Mechanism (New Zealand);
86.5.
Ensure the establishment of an independent supervision mechanism
which would have access to all detention centres with a view to
facilitating the prompt ratification of OP-CAT (Mexico);
86.6.
Ratify OP-CAT without further delay (Denmark);
86.7.
Encouraged to accede to the remaining core human rights instruments
to which it is yet to become a party, especially CED (Thailand);
86.8.
Sign and ratify CED (France);
86.9.
Study the possibility of signing and ratifying CED and ICRMW
(Argentina);
86.10. Consider acceding to ICRMW (Algeria); ratify ICRMW (Bolivia);
complete the ratification process of ICRMW (Turkey); engage in
consultations with civil society with a view to possible accession to
ICRMW (Philippines); ratify ICRMW (Bosnia and Herzegovina);
86.11. Ratify ILO Convention No. 169 and incorporate it into its national
norms (Bolivia);
86.12. Consider ratifying ILO Convention No. 169 (Norway);2
86.13. Withdraw its reservations to CRC (Hungary);
86.14. Consider withdrawing its reservations to article 4 (a) of ICERD
(Republic of Korea);
86.15. Withdraw its reservation on article 4 (a) of ICERD, as this reservation
undermines one of the key objectives of this Convention (South Africa);
86.16. Lift its reservations to the following international conventions: ICERD,
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women (CEDAW), the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights and CRC (Denmark);
2
The recommendation as read out during the interactive dialogue: “Ratifies the ILO Convention 169”.
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