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II. Conclusions and/or recommendations**
134. The recommendations formulated during the interactive dialogue and listed
below have been examined by Nigeria.
135.
The following recommendations enjoy the support of Nigeria:
135.1.
Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR and the
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a
communications procedure (Portugal);
135.2.
Continue the process of ratifying those human rights instruments to
which Nigeria is not yet a State party (Benin);
135.3.
Step up its efforts in pursuing the ratification of other relevant
international human rights instruments (Philippines);
135.4.
Consider ratifying the outstanding human rights instruments and
further update domestic laws to be in line with those articles (Lesotho);
135.5.
Continue the process of ratifying international human rights
instruments that it is not yet a party to (Burkina Faso);
135.6.
Consider the ratification of International Labour Organization
Convention No. 169 (Mexico);
135.7.
Ensure the enactment of the bill on the Convention on Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (Brazil);
135.8.
Incorporate in national legislation the international human rights
legal instruments to which Nigeria has acceded (Burkina Faso);
135.9.
Reinforce anti-corruption laws (Côte d’Ivoire);
135.10. Bring its national legislation fully in line with the Rome Statute and
to ratify the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities (Estonia);
135.11. Redouble efforts in harmonization of the legal system of the country
(Ethiopia);
135.12. Take further measures to implement the 2010 recommendations by
the Committee on the Rights of the Child, especially related to the
domestication of the CRC; the right of the child to education, nutrition and
health, and protecting girls from early marriage (Finland);
135.13. Adopt legislative and practical measures to combat accusations
against children for witchcraft by, inter alia, criminalizing the witchcraft
accusations, providing protection to children; and by awareness-raising,
including in cooperation with civil society (Finland);
135.14. Ensure international conventions are streamlined in domestic laws
(France);
135.15. Incorporate into municipal law various instruments such as the
Optional Protocol on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Ghana);
135.16. Speed up the process of adopting laws that coincide with treaties that
Nigeria has recently ratified (Iraq);
** Conclusions and recommendations have not been edited.
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