A/HRC/17/3 79.2. Look into the possibility of progressively acceding to or ratifying the major human rights conventions, starting with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (Algeria); 79.3. Ratify ICPPR (United States of America); 79.4. Ratify ICCPR and sign and ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) (United Kingdom); 79.5. Promptly ratify and implement in national laws the outstanding core human rights treaties, including ICESCR and ICCPR and its two optional protocols (Sweden); 79.6. Consider ratifying the following international instruments: the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD); ICESCR; ICCPR; the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its protocol; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and its protocols; the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) and its protocol; the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol; and ILO fundamental conventions (Brazil); 79.7. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, which has already been signed by the Government (Hungary); 79.8. Ratify CEDAW (Canada; Azerbaijan); 79.9. Continue towards ratification and implement of CEDAW (Australia); 79.10. Ratify CEDAW in parallel with enacting and implementing specific legislation to fight violence against women, with the possible assistance of the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (Hungary); 79.11. Ratify CEDAW and meanwhile continue efforts to review existing legislation, policy and practice to ensure protection for the rights of women (New Zealand); 79.12. Consider the early ratification of CEDAW (Trinidad and Tobago); 79.13. Ratify the two International Covenants as well as CAT, CEDAW, CERD, CRPD and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED), with their respective optional protocols, including the two Optional Protocols to CRC (Spain); 79.14. Study the possibility of being party to the following international instruments: ICCPR, ICESCR, CEDAW, CAT and CED (Argentina); 79.15. Ratify the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Canada); 79.16. Ratify CAT and align fully the definition of the crime in its domestic law with that in the Convention (Canada); 79.17. Complete its international commitments by ratifying those instruments which it has already signed, and initiate the process for the signing and subsequent ratification of CED and CRPD (France); 79.18. Sign and ratify CRPD (Mauritius); 13

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