A/HRC/16/4 104.9. Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture; the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance; the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Spain); 104.10. Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR (Switzerland); 104.11. Pursue efforts to harmonize national legislation with the commitments undertaken at the international level (Algeria); 104.12. Ensure that domestic laws are in conformity with international human rights obligations (Australia); 104.13. Harmonize national laws with international treaties to which Malawi has acceded (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya); 104.14. Ensure that all human rights treaties are given full legal effect in domestic laws (Norway); 104.15. Take immediate steps to ensure that CEDAW is given full legal effect in its domestic laws (Azerbaijan); 104.16. That CEDAW be incorporated into domestic law and that efforts are also directed towards the need for the passing of all other pending bills that affect the women in Malawi (Norway); 104.17. Increase significantly, in conformity with international standards, the minimum age of criminal responsibility of children, which is currently 10 years (Mexico); 104.18. Increase the age of minimum criminal responsibility to at least 12 years, as recommended by the CRC (Austria); 104.19. Create a comprehensive policy to improve the rights of the child, which is essential in this situation, in parallel with the ratification of OP-CRC-AC (Hungary); 104.20. Consider extending a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Human Rights Council (Latvia); 104.21. Promote equality between men and women, and to this end reinforce its cooperation with international and regional mechanisms, especially special procedures (France); 104.22. Develop and strengthen appropriate legislative measures to address the issue of sexual abuse and exploitation, ensure prompt prosecution of perpetrators, guarantee that no person under the age of 14 is admitted to employment or work, amend the Constitution to raise the minimum age for engaging in hazardous work to 18 years, and enact and implement legislation to ensure the complete prohibition of corporal punishment (Italy); 104.23. Adopt the necessary measures to guarantee that, in accordance with national legislation, children under 14 years of age do not work, and amend the Constitution so as to raise to 18 years the minimum age for engaging in work that is likely to be harmful (Spain). 105. The recommendations below did not enjoy the support of Malawi: 19