A/HRC/44/16 II. Conclusions and/or recommendations 100. The following recommendations will be examined by Guyana, which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the forty-forth session of the Human Rights Council: 100.1 Extend a standing invitation to all Human Rights Council special procedures and closely cooperate with them (Ukraine); Consider the extension of a standing invitation to all special procedure mandate holders of the Human Rights Council (Latvia); 100.2 Issue a standing invitation to the special procedure mandate holders (France); 100.3 Adopt an open, merit-based process when selecting national candidates for United Nations treaty body elections (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); 100.4 Ratify the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Convention against Discrimination in Education, 1960 (Serbia); 100.5 Ratify the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Rwanda) (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela); 100.6 Continue actions and initiatives to ratify the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol (Benin); 100.7 Continue actions and initiatives to ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (Benin); 100.8 Accede to the American Convention on Human Rights and the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (Costa Rica); 100.9 Consider ratifying the American Convention on Human Rights (Uruguay); 100.10 Ratify the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) of the International Labour Organization (Denmark) (Honduras); 100.11 Accede to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Iraq); 100.12 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Montenegro) (Spain) (Ukraine); Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Uruguay); Consider the early ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Jamaica); 100.13 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Australia); 100.14 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Spain); 100.15 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Denmark); 100.16 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Afghanistan); Consider the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Chile); 10