A/HRC/22/9
Rights Council in March 2013. The responses will be included in the outcome report
adopted by the Human Rights Council at the same meeting:
107.1
Ratify the Kampala amendments to the Rome Statute (Liechtenstein).
108. The recommendations listed below have been examined by and enjoy the
support of Benin:
108.1
Consider an early ratification of the Third Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communication procedure
(Slovakia);
108.2
Publish in the Official Journal all international and regional human
rights treaties once they are ratified or acceded to by Benin, for their
dissemination (Uruguay);
108.3
Maintain its positive efforts in the current process of reviewing its
national laws with a view to bringing them in line with its international human
rights obligations (Egypt);
108.4
Amend the draft Criminal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure to
bring it into line with the Second Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the abolition of the death penalty and
adopt them as soon as possible and initiate an awareness campaign so that the
public in Benin are aware of the impact of these changes (United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland);
108.5
Identify, revise or repeal all provisions of the Penal Code and the
Criminal Procedure Code which are in conflict with the Optional Protocol to
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the abolition of the
death penalty (Uruguay);
108.6
Implement the Second Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights into domestic law as soon as practicable
(Australia);
108.7
Remove all reference to the death penalty in the Penal Code and
commute all death sentences into alternative sentences (France);
108.8
Abolish entirely the death penalty from its legislation (Italy);
108.9
Ensure that the Criminal Code is brought into line with the Second
Optional Protocol of the ICCPR in respect of the abolition of the death penalty
(Spain);
108.10 Take measures necessary to define and criminalize torture in the
forthcoming Criminal Code (France);
108.11 Establish a legal framework for the national preventive mechanism
against torture and lobby for the passage of the bill to establish a national
observatory for the prevention of torture (United States of America);
108.12 Keep on efforts both on legal and procedural grounds to improve
conditions of detention and to speed up the adoption of the draft criminal code
(Egypt);
108.13 Make every effort to speed up the process of adoption of the drafts of
the children’s code and the law on gender equality and women’s participation
(Algeria);
GE.12-18655
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