A/HRC/16/14 100.22. Initiate or join public campaigns so as to encourage tolerance towards homosexual, bisexual and transsexual persons (Belgium); 100.23. Start a public information campaign to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation (Netherlands). 101. The following recommendations do not enjoy the support of Jamaica: 101.1. Consider ratifying all outstanding international human rights instruments, and update domestic legislation to bring it into line with the provisions of these international treaties (South Africa); 101.2. Ratify international human rights standards to which it is not yet a State party (Nicaragua); 101.3. Sign and ratify the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, from which Jamaica withdrew in 1997 (Spain); sign the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR (Portugal); consider reaccession to ICCPR-OP 1, as well as the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR, with a view to entirely abolishing capital punishment (Slovakia); become a party to ICCPR-OP 1 (withdrawn in 1997) and ICCPROP 2 (Argentina); 101.4. Consider extending a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Human Rights Council (Latvia); 101.5. Issue a standing invitation to all special procedures mandate holders of the Human Rights Council (Brazil); 101.6. Abolish, definitively and as soon as possible, the death penalty (France); 101.7. Abolish the death penalty and accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Belgium); 101.8. Abolish all provisions in the Penal Code allowing capital punishment, and declare a moratorium on all executions (Norway); 101.9. Repeal all national legislation implying the application of the death penalty and declare a de jure moratorium; commute all death sentences to prison sentences; and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Spain); 101.10. Eradicate the death penalty as a type of punishment from the legal system after wide consultation with countries which recently took the same step (Hungary); 101.11. Accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at abolishing the death penalty, and take all necessary steps to remove the death penalty from Jamaica’s justice system (Australia); 101.12. Reconsider the withdrawal from the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and, taking into account that death sentences have not been implemented since 1988, declare a moratorium with a view to abolishing capital punishment (Mexico); programmes to offer protections for the most vulnerable in society, including women, children, persons with disabilities and LGBT persons, and to eliminate discrimination against them” (Canada). 21

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