A/HRC/8/43 Page 18 19. To accelerate its efforts to finalize the national anti-corruption policy and mechanisms for monitoring its implementation (South Africa). 59. The following recommendations will be examined by Zambia which will provide responses in due time. The response of Zambia to these recommendations will be included in the outcome report adopted by the Human Rights Council at its eighth session: 1. To interpret statutory law and to set enforcement mechanisms in a way that protects unionized and non-unionized workers equally and without discrimination (Slovenia); 2. That the prohibition of discrimination be strengthened in the context of the current constitutional-review and furthermore that specific legislation be adopted to ensure the full implementation of CEDAW on the ground (Austria); 3. To consider adhering to the optional protocol to CEDAW (Brazil); 4. To transform the de facto moratorium on death penalty into a de jure moratorium (France, United Kingdom, Chile); 5. To sign the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture at the earliest possible opportunity (United Kingdom); 6. To consider taking steps to change the Defamation Act in the Criminal Code in order to broaden the space for exercising the freedom of expression (Norway); 7. The swift adoption of the bill on freedom of information (Norway); 8. That international treaties adhered to by Zambia enjoy full implementation and that their incorporation in domestic law be accelerated (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and to report to the Human Rights Council about further concrete steps that will be taken to implement the ratified international conventions in domestic law (Netherlands); 9. To consider ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (Mexico); 10. To take all appropriate measures to improve the situation of women’s rights on the ground and retain in the draft Constitution currently under discussion both the provision on equality before the law regardless of sex and the provision prohibiting any law, culture, custom or tradition that undermine the dignity, welfare, interests or status of women (Italy, Canada); 11. To continue the reform of the Criminal Code in relation to the prosecution of journalists (Ireland). 60. The recommendations noted in the report in paragraph 19 (a) and (b) and paragraph 22 (b) above did not enjoy the support of Zambia. 61. All conclusions and/or recommendations contained in the present report reflect the position of the submitting State(s) and/or the State under review thereon. They should not be construed as endorsed by the Working Group as a whole.