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Ministry of Social Affairs and a project on prosecutions that was being carried out with the
Ministry of Justice. Several measures had been taken to implement Security Council
resolution 1325 (2000), including the adoption in 2005 of a national policy on equality and
equity and an accompanying action plan, and the adoption in December 2006 of Act No.
06.032 on protection of women against violence in the Central African Republic. In
addition, women had been involved in the peace process from the signing of the Libreville
Agreements until the establishment of the Transitional National Council.
103. Lastly, the delegation thanked all the country representatives who had spoken for
their understanding of the specific situation in the Central African Republic, for their frank
comments and for their call for international aid to the Central African Republic.
II. Conclusions and/or recommendations**
104. The recommendations formulated during the interactive dialogue and listed
below have been examined by and enjoy the support of the Central African Republic:
104.1
Take necessary steps domestically to ensure compliance with the
obligations under the international human rights instruments to which it is a
party (South Africa);
104.2
Speed up the ratification of international legal instruments not yet
ratified (Burundi);
104.3
Consider ratifying the international human rights conventions to
which the Central African Republic has not yet been a party (Burkina Faso);
104.4
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
(Djibouti);
104.5
Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
(Montenegro);
104.6
Reiterate its recommendation to abolish the death penalty and to
ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, and duly eliminate provisions concerning the capital
punishment from the national criminal law (Portugal);
104.7
Abolish the death penalty (France);
104.8. Officially abolish the death penalty still contained in the Penal Code
of 2010 and to accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR
(Germany);
104.9
Consider the abolition of the death penalty (Rwanda);
104.10 Speed up the legal process toward the abolition of the death penalty
(including in the Penal Code) with the cooperation of the Office of the High
Commissioner and the donors, and establish an official moratorium on the
death penalty, including of minors, to be taken into account in all peace
negotiations or agreements with the rebel factions (Uruguay);
** Conclusions and recommendations have not been edited.
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