A/HRC/14/8 34. To lift the Public Emergency Regulations and to restore an environment in which all of Fiji’s citizens can meet freely and express political opinions without fear or retribution (Australia); 35. To lift the state of emergency and to take the measures necessary to reestablish a constitutional order complying with the rule of law, before the date indicated recently by the Government (Switzerland); 36. To revoke the Fiji Human Rights Commission Decree, to lift restrictions on investigations and to take other measures to ensure that the National Human Rights Commission can operate in accordance with the Paris Principles (United Kingdom); 37. To adhere to the Paris Principles, which address the status and the functioning of national institutions for the protection and promotion of human rights, by ensuring the independence of Fiji’s Human Rights Commission (Canada); 38. To provide the national human rights institution with a framework for independent functioning in accordance with the Paris Principles (Germany); 39. To bring the functioning of the Fiji Human Rights Commission into conformity with the Paris Principles (Philippines); 40. To allow for the full independence and effective functioning of the Fiji Human Rights Commission to ensure that the fundamental rights and freedoms of all persons, including, inter alia, freedom of religion or belief, expression or opinion, association and peaceful assembly, are respected (Israel); 41. Take effective measures to guarantee the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the people of Fiji (Japan); 42. To enhance and, where appropriate, review the implementation of medium- and long-term strategies, including the Strategic Development Plan 2007-2011, the 2020 Plan for Indigenous Fijians, the National Policy for Persons Living with Disabilities 2008-2018 and the national AIDS strategy, inter alia, with a view to achieving further gains in the promotion and protection of human rights in the country (Malaysia); 43. To integrate the component of human rights education and training into its education system (Morocco); 44. To cooperate fully with the United Nations human rights mechanisms (Switzerland); 45. To consider extending (Latvia)/extend (Chile, Slovenia) a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Human Rights Council; 46. To consider extending a standing invitation to special procedures to visit and help with the reforms (Maldives); 47. To allow and facilitate the visit of special procedures mandate holders who have asked for it (Slovenia); to give a positive response to requests for visits made by the special procedures (Spain); 48. To consider favourably the request for a visit by the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and to find time in the near future for a visit by the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers (Norway); 15

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