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and similar initiatives to ensure a life in dignity for Palestinian refugees until
the time of their return to their Palestinian homeland, in cooperation with the
international community (Sudan);
81.27. Continue seeking technical and financial assistance for demining
activities, given that children continue to be among the most vulnerable sections
of Lebanese society particularly in terms of their exposure to explosive
remnants of war (Malaysia);
81.28. Continue cooperation with the human rights mechanisms (United Arab
Emirates).
82.
The recommendations below did not enjoy the support of Lebanon:
82.1. Ratify the optional protocols to ICESCR and ICCPR and the optional
protocols to CEDAW and the one concerning children in armed conflict, signed
in 2007 (Spain);
82.2. Accede to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and
to its additional Protocol, and ensure that these instruments are implemented at
the national level (Belgium);
82.3. Consider lifting its reservations to CEDAW (Norway); Withdraw all
reservations to CEDAW which undermine the compliance of its obligations or
the purpose of the treaty (Spain);
82.4. Introduce a de jure moratorium on executions until the government
abolishes the death penalty (Belgium);
82.5. Deepen the process to abolish the death penalty by implementing a de
jure moratorium on the use of death penalty and subsequently by abolishing it
permanently; (France);
82.6. Impose a moratorium on capital punishment and commute existing
death sentences to imprisonment terms with a view to abolish the capital
punishment entirely (Slovakia);
82.7. Abolish the death penalty and consider the ratification of the Second
Optional Protocol to ICCPR (Belgium);
82.8. Abolish the death penalty by adopting, promptly, the draft law on the
abolition of the death penalty, and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the
ICCPR (United Kingdom); Accede to the Second optional Protocol to the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at abolishing the
death penalty, and take the necessary steps to remove the death penalty from
Lebanon’s justice system (Australia);
82.9. Adopt, as soon as possible, the bill to abolish the death penalty;
meanwhile maintain the current de facto moratorium and introduce a de jure
moratorium until the permanent abolition of the death penalty goes into effect
(Spain);
82.10. Proceed to abolish the death penalty from its penal code (Ireland);
Eliminate the death penalty from its national legislation (Canada);
82.11. Adopt officially General Assembly resolution 62/149 on a moratorium
on the death penalty and ratify the second optional protocol to ICCPR, as
important steps towards abolishing capital punishment (Italy);
82.12. Abolish the death penalty (Germany);
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