A/HRC/22/13 102.70. Increase the capacity building and technical assistance to enable the country to implement its national priorities including the National Strategic Plan in the sphere of education (Zimbabwe); 103. The recommendations listed below will be further examined by Zambia and responses will be provided in due time, but no later than the twenty-second session of the Human Rights Council in March 2013. These responses will be included in the outcome report adopted by the Human Rights Council at its twenty-second session in March 2013; 103.1. Consider the ratification of the following international instruments: the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (ICCPR-OP2); the Optional Protocol to the Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Rwanda); 103.2. Ratify all main international human rights treaties, especially ICCPR-OP2, Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OP-CAT), the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OP-CRC-AC) and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (OP-CRC-SC), and incorporate these treaties fully in the national legislation (Slovenia); 103.3. Consider an early ratification of the third Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (OPIC) (Slovakia); 103.4. Ratify OP-CAT; ICCPR-OP2; the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (OP-CEDAW); the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (OP-CERD); OP-CRC-AC and OP-CRC-SC (Spain); 103.5. Ratify OP-CEDAW (Togo); 103.6. Ratify the remaining international human rights instruments and implement them and follow up on them (Benin); 103.7. Consider ratifying OP-CEDAW (Brazil); 103.8. Consider ratifying the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (Indonesia); 103.9. Consider acceding to ICCPR-OP2 (Italy); 103.10. Consider ratifying the remaining instruments in a progressive manner and have them effectively incorporated in the national legislation for effective implementation (Kenya); 103.11. Step up its efforts towards the full implementation of the AntiHuman Trafficking Act of 2008, and consider ratifying OP-CRC-AC and OPCRC-SC (Cyprus); 103.12. Enshrine the principle of equality and non-discrimination in the Constitution without qualifications by avoiding any discriminatory clauses as the draft is finalized (Ireland); 18

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