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113. With regard to the Millennium Development Goals, Yemen had established national
plans to reduce poverty and ensure that universal primary education would be achieved on
time.
114. The delegation reiterated its thanks and appreciation to the presidency of the session,
representatives of Member States for the fruitful discussion during the interactive dialogue
and the UPR secretariat for the excellent organization.
II. Conclusions and/or recommendations**
115. The recommendations formulated during the interactive dialogue and listed
below enjoy the support of Yemen:
115.1
Ratify the Rome Statute of the ICC (Botswana );
115.2
Accelerate its process to ratify the Rome Statute (Republic of Korea);
115.3
Ratify the Rome Statute that Yemen signed in 2000 and align legislation with all
the obligations related to this text (France);
115.4
Ratify the Rome Statute and take necessary measures to ensure its implementation
in the national legislation (Switzerland);
115.5
Ratify/accede to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and to
implement it fully at national level and to accede to the Agreement on Privileges and
Immunities of the Court (Slovakia);
115.6
Accelerate the legislative process for the rapid accession to the Rome Statute of the
ICC and the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities of the ICC (Uruguay);
115.7
Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and fully align its
legislation with all obligations under the Rome Statute, including incorporating the Rome
Statute definition of crimes and general principles, as well as adopting provisions enabling
cooperation with the Court (Latvia);
115.8
Ensure that security forces and non-State actors responsible for human rights
abuses, including human rights violations in 2011, are investigated and, where appropriate,
prosecuted, and ratify the Rome State of the International Criminal Court (Australia);
115.9
Lift the reservations to article 29 (1) of the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (Belgium);
115.10 Become party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women (Australia);
115.11 Continue efforts towards the ratification of the International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance as well as for those main
international human rights instruments, to which the country is not yet party (Argentina);
115.12 Adopt national legislation prohibiting all domestic violence and discrimination in
law and in fact against women and girls (Congo);
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