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102.12. Reform the legal system so as to entrench accountability of the military
and the security apparatus, to end impunity for human rights violations
committed by the members of these institutions and provide compensation to
the victims (Netherlands);
102.13. Take all measures to respect freedom of expression (Switzerland);
102.14. Revise its Personal Status Act to ensure that women and men have
equal rights (Brazil);
102.15. Put an end to all human rights violations (Poland).
103. The following recommendations will be examined by Syria, which will provide
responses in due time, but no later than the nineteenth session of the Human Rights
Council:
103.1. Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons
from Enforced Disappearance at an early date (Japan);
103.2. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishment and the
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearances, and accede to the 1951 Refugee Convention on Refugees and
its 1967 Optional Protocol (Peru);
103.3. Sign and ratify OPCAT and establish a national preventive mechanism
(Maldives);
103.4. Ensure that the judicial definitions contained in human rights treaties
are incorporated effectively and in a timely fashion in its national legislation
(Peru);
103.5. Adopt a definition of torture in conformity with the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment (Brazil);
103.6. Incorporate in the domestic legislation the definition of torture, in line
with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment, and ensure that no statement made as a result of
torture can be invoked as evidence in any judicial proceedings, in conformity
with Article 15 of this Convention (Mexico);
103.7. Consider withdrawing the reservations to articles 14, 20 and 21 of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child (Uruguay);
103.8. Withdraw reservations to all international human rights treaties to
which it is a party, and consider the ratification of the outstanding human
rights treaties (Slovenia);
103.9. Withdraw the reservations to Article 20 of the Convention against
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
and consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to this Convention (Mexico);
103.10. Implement the obligations undertaken on signing the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or
Punishment (Switzerland);
103.11. Allow the Human Rights Council mandated Commission of Inquiry
immediate and unhindered access to Syria (United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland);
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