A/HRC/44/14 43. The representative of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Services recalled that Turkey had signed the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (the Istanbul Convention) in 2011 and had been the first State to ratify it without any reservations. The law on the protection of the family and prevention of violence against women, drafted on the basis of the Istanbul Convention, had entered into force in 2012. The third national action plan 2016–2020 on combating violence against women was currently in force. The coordination plan on combating violence against women for 2020–2021 had been prepared by all relevant institutions to strengthen the State’s policies to that end. 44. The head of the delegation thanked everyone who had contributed in a constructive spirit to the review. He also expressed gratitude to the troika and the staff of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. II. Conclusions and/or recommendations 45. The following recommendations will be examined by Turkey, which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the forty-fourth session of the Human Rights Council. 45.1 Consider ratifying the outstanding core international human rights treaties and conventions (Ghana); 45.2 Consider ratifying the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (Ghana); 45.3 Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Ukraine); 45.4 Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Portugal) (Honduras) (Chile) (Iraq); 45.5 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Senegal) (Portugal); 45.6 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (Spain); 45.7 Accede to and fully align its national legislation with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Estonia); 45.8 Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Honduras) (Poland) (Spain); 45.9 Promote measures that allow investigation, prosecution and sentencing of acts of enforced disappearance and consider signing the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Argentina); 45.10 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child by establishing a presentation procedure and harmonize national legislation with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its protocols (Chad); 45.11 Ratify the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education (Slovenia) (Honduras); 45.12 Consider acceding to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (Côte d’Ivoire); 45.13 Consider ratification of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and ratify Protocol No. 12 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (North Macedonia); 7

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