A/HRC/43/16 31.1 Cooperate with international human rights mechanisms by considering the ratification of outstanding international human rights treaties (Zambia); 31.2 Take immediate measures to assume its obligations under international law to respect and protect human rights (Turkey); 31.3 Consider acceding to the international human rights conventions to which Egypt has not yet acceded and continue efforts to harmonize domestic laws in line with its international obligations under international treaties (State of Palestine);2 31.4 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, cease the practice of pretrial detention and ensure that detainees can have access to medical care, their lawyers and their relatives (Switzerland); 31.5 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, establish a national preventive mechanism and cooperate with the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (Czechia); 31.6 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (Spain) (Denmark) (Sweden) (Austria); 31.7 Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Luxembourg) (Austria) (Estonia); 31.8 Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court along with its amendments and fully implement them into national law (Liechtenstein); 31.9 Consider acceding to outstanding human rights treaties, in particular the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Ukraine); 31.10 Become a party to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Seychelles) (Togo); 31.11 Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, put an end to excessive and undue preventive detention and ensure that competent authorities have the right to visit places of detention unexpectedly (France); 31.12 Accede to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Mongolia); 31.13 Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Ghana); 31.14 Consider acceding to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (Uruguay); 31.15 Consider signing and ratifying the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (Ecuador); 31.16 Accede to the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Namibia); 2 The recommendation, as read out during the interactive dialogue, was: “Accede to international conventions to which Egypt has not yet acceded and continue efforts to harmonize domestic laws in line with its international obligations under international treaties”. 7

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