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100.10. Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, aimed at abolishing the death penalty (United
Kingdom);
100.11. Ratify the second Optional Protocol of the ICCPR, and formally
establish a moratorium on the use of death penalty with a view to its abolition
(Italy);
100.12. Accede to outstanding international human rights instruments,
including the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights, aimed at abolishing the death penalty (Australia);
100.13. Consider ratifying the outstanding core international human rights
treaties (Nepal, Ghana);
100.14. Incorporate international human rights instruments into domestic law,
including the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Australia)9;
100.15. Integrate the various regional and international human rights
instruments to which it is a party into its domestic legislation, particularly
concerning the death penalty (Chad)10;
100.16. Implement, and amend when appropriate, the Sexual Offences Act in
compliance with international human rights standards to ensure the full
accountability of offenders, providing efficient reintegration programmes to
victims (Slovakia);
100.17. Enhance substantially its cooperation with treaty bodies and special
procedures mandate holders (Hungary);
100.18. Strengthen its cooperation with treaty bodies, including by agreeing on
timelines for the submission of overdue reports (Norway);
100.19. Make further efforts to combat any forms of discrimination against
women and harmonize its legislation, including its customary law practices,
with international obligations and standards (Brazil);
100.20. Consider abolishing the death penalty (Brazil); consider positively the
establishment of the moratorium on the death penalty with a view to its
abolition (Mexico);
100.21. Move forward towards formally abolishing the death penalty (Ireland);
100.22. Definitively abolish the death penalty, and sign and ratify the Second
Optional Protocol to ICCPR, which bans capital punishment in all
circumstances (France);
100.23. Lift its reservations to CEDAW (France)11;
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Recommendation originally read: “Incorporate international human rights instruments into domestic
law, including the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child” (Australia).
Recommendation originally read: “Integrate the various regional and international human rights
instrument to which it is a party into its domestic legislation, particularly concerning the death
penalty, torture, the state of prisons, freedom of the press and of assembly, child welfare, gender
equality and so on” (Chad).
Recommendation originally read: “Implement a plan to combat violence against women and to lift its
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