A/HRC/8/25 Page 17 6. To continue to review all counter-terrorism legislation and ensure that it complies with the highest human rights standards. (Cuba, Ghana and the Netherlands) 7. To harmonize its legislation with its human rights obligations towards individual protesters exercising their freedom of expression and opinion and to curtail excessive pretrial detention. (Algeria) 8. To enshrine in legislation the right of access of detainees to a lawyer immediately after detention, and not after 48 hours. (Russian Federation) 9. To strengthen guarantees for detained persons, and not to extend but to shorten the length of time of pretrial detentions. (Switzerland) 10. To introduce strict time limits on pre-charge detention of those suspected of terrorism, and provide information about so-called “secret flights”. (Russian Federation) 11. To consider that any person detained by its armed forces is under its jurisdiction and respect its obligations concerning the human rights of such individuals. (Switzerland) 12. To elaborate specific policies and programmes aimed at ensuring that its applicable human rights obligations are not violated in situations of armed conflict. (Egypt) 13. To elaborate a national programme to combat the problem of overcrowding of prisons. (Russian Federation) 14. To facilitate the access of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to its prisons. (Algeria) 15. To enhance the programmes aimed at addressing socio-economic inequalities, from a human rights perspective in fulfilment of its obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. (Egypt) 16. To provide further information with regard to efforts to reduce poverty among children in half by 2010. (France) 17. To provide more care and attention to the rights of the elderly. (Canada) 18. To follow the Council of the European Union “Asylum Qualification Directive” in future cases with regard to sexual orientation as a ground for asylum-seeking. (Canada) 19. To consider holding a referendum on the desirability or otherwise of a written constitution, preferably republican, which includes a bill of rights (Sri Lanka). 20. That the example of the United Kingdom in issuing, in principle, a specific law dealing with incitement to racial and religious hatred, be emulated as a good practice in countries which have not done so, in implementation of article 20(2) of ICCPR and its stipulated purpose. (Egypt)