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92.14. Adopt the necessary legislation to explicitly prohibit violence against
children, including corporal punishment (Finland);
92.15. Maintain State preschool and general education institutions with
education/teaching in minority languages, including the Russian language
(Russian Federation);
92.16. Guarantee respect for human rights of foreign citizens, regardless of
their immigration status, especially those from vulnerable groups, such as
refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons; and guarantee respect for the
principle of non-refoulement established in the 1951 Convention Relating to the
Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol (Ecuador);
92.17. Take measures to ensure the availability of adequate facilities for
refugee children, including access to legal counsel, medical care and education
(Poland).
93.
The following recommendations will be examined by Latvia, which will provide
responses in due course, but no later than the eighteenth session of the Human Rights
Council in September 2011:
93.1. Accede to or ratify the following international instruments: 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; the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights; the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the
Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the Optional
Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and the International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Ecuador);
93.2. Accelerate the process of ratification of the Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel,
Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and the Second Optional
Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Czech
Republic);
93.3. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and
other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment; the Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women; and the Second Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Brazil);
93.4. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women; the Second Optional Protocol to
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the Optional Protocol to
the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment (France);
93.5. Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the Second Optional Protocol to
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the Optional Protocol to
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women; the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and the International
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