A/HRC/40/14 79.2 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Spain) (Slovenia); Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Australia) (Chile); Accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Mexico); 79.3 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (Chile); 79.4 Consider extending a standing invitation to all special procedure mandate holders of the Human Rights Council (Bahamas) (Latvia); Extend an open invitation to the special procedure mandate holders (Slovenia); Issue an open invitation to the special procedure mandate holders and take better advantage of those mechanisms in order to foster national capacity to combat persistent challenges in the promotion and protection of human rights (Chile); Issue a standing invitation to all special procedure mandate holders of the Human Rights Council (Denmark); Issue a standing invitation to the special procedure mandate holders (France); Extend an open invitation to the special procedure mandate holders of the Human Rights Council (Portugal); Extend a permanent standing invitation to the special procedure mandate holders of the Human Rights Council (Spain); 79.5 Consider extending a standing invitation to the special procedure mandate holders (Georgia); 79.6 Extend an open invitation to the special procedure mandate holders (Montenegro); 79.7 Fully resource and empower the Ombudsman to act as a national human rights institution in full compliance with the Paris Principles, including through investigating complaints against public authorities and police misconduct (Australia); 79.8 Include an explicit prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the Constitution and amend any other relevant legislation, such as the Administration of Estates Act and the Social Security Act so that same-sex couples enjoy equal rights to heterosexual couples (Netherlands); 79.9 Review the Constitution and legislation in order to explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender and sexual orientation (Uruguay); 4 79.10 Abolish the death penalty for all crimes and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (France); 79.11 Abolish the death penalty for all crimes and accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Iceland); 79.12 Consider abolishing the death penalty (Italy); 79.13 Abolish the death penalty de jure (Portugal); 79.14 Preserve and protect the natural institution of marriage as a conjugal union between a man and a woman based on free consent (Haiti); 79.15 Amend the legislation in order to decriminalize abortion, in particular in case of pregnancy resulting from a rape (France); 79.16 Prohibit corporal punishment at home (Ukraine); 79.17 Explicitly prohibit the corporal punishment of children in all settings through enacting legislation (Montenegro); 4 16 See footnote 1.