A/HRC/22/14 II. Conclusions and/or recommendations** 147. The recommendations formulated during the interactive dialogue/listed below will be examined by Japan which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the 22nd session of the Human Rights Council in March 2013. The responses of Japan will be included in the outcome report to be adopted by the Human Rights Council at its 22nd session in March 2013: 147.1. Proceed with the ratification of instruments that have not yet been ratified and accelerate the process of withdrawing reservations in order to ensure the fullest enjoyment of human rights for the population (Benin); 147.2. Take further steps to ratify relevant treaties and conventions, keeping in line its priorities and the domestic legislative process (Cambodia); 147.3. Ratify the optional protocols of the human rights conventions to which Japan is a party (Hungary); 147.4. Recognize the competence of the treaty bodies to receive and examine complaints from individuals, by ratifying the relevant treaties (Republic of Korea); 147.5. Consider taking necessary measures to accept individual complaints about violations of rights enshrined in Human Rights treaties and protocols ratified by Japan that foresee such a procedure (Austria); 147.6. Ratify the second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR-OP 2), aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Rwanda; Switzerland); 147.7. Consider the possibility of abolishing the death penalty and acceding to the ICCPR–OP 2, while approving a moratorium in the meantime (Uruguay); 147.8. Accede to the ICCPR-OP 2 and also the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OP-CAT) (Australia); 147.9. Consider the possibility to ratify OP-CAT (Tunisia); 147.10. Accede to the OP-CAT (Czech Republic); 147.11. Sign the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR) (Portugal); 147.12. Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (Brazil); 147.13. Recognize the competence of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CPED) to receive and consider communications from or on behalf of victims and other States Parties for violations of the provisions of the Convention (Uruguay); 147.14. Withdraw its reservation to article 37(c) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) regarding the separation of children deprived of liberty from adults (Austria); ** Conclusions and recommendations have not been edited. 15