A/HRC/16/6 70.2. Strengthen its legal arsenal by acceding to the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (France); 70.3. Sign and/or ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrants Workers and Members of Their Families, and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Argentina); 70.4. Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, as well as the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Spain); 70.5. Ratify the following international treaties to which it is not yet a party: the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Ecuador); 70.6. Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (Haiti); 70.7. Ratify Convention No. 169 of the International Labour Organization, concerning indigenous peoples (Brazil and Norway); 70.8. Ratify ILO Convention No. 169, concerning indigenous and tribal peoples, and the Ibero-American Convention on the Rights of Young People (Ecuador); 70.9. Adopt a comprehensive law on the protection of children and young people (Hungary); 70.10. Revise the Constitution, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to avoid the rejection of naturalization for individuals on the grounds of physical or mental disability (Mexico); 70.11. Extend a standing and permanent invitation to the special procedures of the Human Rights Council (Brazil, Chile, Peru and Spain); 70.12. Adopt specific criminal legislation in conformity with article 4 of the Convention for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Brazil); 70.13. Harmonize all national legislation and elaborate policies in accordance with the Yogyakarta principles (Norway); 70.14. Revise its criminal legislation, including juvenile justice legislation, so as to reduce the use and length of pre-trial detention for persons under 18, and increase the age of criminal responsibility in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Mexico); 70.15. Prohibit all forms of corporal punishment of children (Brazil); 70.16. Make efforts to include in its legislation a prohibition of all forms of corporal punishment of children (Costa Rica); 70.17. Modify the low minimum age for marriage for girls and boys (Nigeria); 17

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