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12.
To continue its efforts to improve the situation of children in detention as
recommended by the Committee against Torture and the Committee on the Rights
of the Child. (Canada, Italy, Slovenia)
13.
To adopt a penal system that is in conformity with the Committee on the Rights of
the Child recommendations, the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the
Administration of Juvenile Justice (“The Beijing Rules”) and the United Nations
Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (The Riyadh Guidelines); to
prohibit the sentencing to life imprisonment for persons under 18 years of age in
conformity with article 37 (a) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
(Slovenia)
14.
To continue its efforts to bring its legislation into line with the norms and principles
of the overall protection system of children and adolescents. (Italy)
15.
To intensify measures to fully realize the rights of indigenous peoples, in particular
their representation in civil service and public institutions. (Republic of Korea)
16.
To provide adequate protection to indigenous peoples and ensure that their right to
possess land is respected. (Nigeria)
17.
To pursue its effort to combat any kind of discrimination against women; to ensure
redress for victims of domestic violence, as well as the prosecution of perpetrators
as recommended by Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women. (Canada)
18.
To include a gender perspective in the follow-up of its UPR process in a systematic
manner. (Slovenia)
19.
To pursue its effort to bring its national and provincial legislation into line with the
human rights international instruments it has ratified; to better distribute food and
other resources with a view to achieving the Millennium Development Goals by
2015. (Cameroon)
20.
To envisage the inclusion of the UPR outcome in the National Human Rights Plan.
(Mexico)
21.
To ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, already signed by Argentina, aiming at the abolition of the death
penalty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional
Protocol. (Nigeria)
65. All conclusions and/or recommendations contained in this 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.
III. VOLUNTARY PLEDGES AND COMMITMENTS
66. Argentina has initiated the procedure towards the recognition of the competence of the
Committee of the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance to
examine individual or inter-State communications.
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