A/HRC/40/7 142. Ukraine noted the establishment of a national interministerial committee on the universal periodic review, and efforts to implement the recommendations from previous cycles. 143. The United Arab Emirates noted the development of the National Cyber-security Strategy in 2014, justice system reforms and the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan 2017–2022. 144. The United Kingdom was concerned about the lack of prosecutions of members of the security forces, human trafficking and the failure to enact the Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill. 145. The United States was concerned about the sexual exploitation of internally displaced persons, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention and the targeting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons. 146. Uruguay was pleased that Nigeria had ratified seven international human rights instruments and hoped it would fully implement them. 147. The delegation of Nigeria noted the positive comments of a number of delegations on a variety of issues, including its social and economic reforms, its efforts to fight corruption and to repatriate stolen funds and its security sector reforms. It thanked the delegations for their participation in the review. II. Conclusions and/or recommendations 148. The following recommendations will be examined by Nigeria, which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the fortieth session of the Human Rights Council: 148.1 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Benin); 148.2 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Estonia); 148.3 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Liechtenstein); 148.4 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Montenegro); 148.5 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Togo); 148.6 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Ukraine); 148.7 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and reform the Constitution in order to prohibit the death penalty and establish, until that time, an indefinite moratorium (Spain); 148.8 Consider ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Georgia); 148.9 Adhere to the human rights instruments to which it is not yet a party, in particular the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, and the African Union Convention 10

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