A/HRC/16/18 84.2. Ratify the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, signed in 2007 (Spain); 84.3. Consider ratification of the Geneva Conventions (Germany); 84.4. Establish an independent national body empowered to investigate the whereabouts of missing persons and victims of enforced disappearance, in the context of the various wars that have occurred in the country (Mexico); 84.5. Establish a process to identify the victims by setting up a DNA database, exhume mass graves and to set up a national commission on missing persons (Germany); 84.6. Criminalise all acts of torture as set forth in the Convention against Torture and adopt punishments in line with the gravity of the crime (United States); 84.7. Increase the penalty for the crime of torture from the current maximum of three years, proportional with the severity of the crime (Netherlands); 84.8. Abolish the crime of honour in its penal code and continue to take the necessary measures in order to better promote women’s rights in all spheres of the society (Greece); 84.9. Bring domestic law into full compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Poland); 84.10. Take further measures to improve the working possibilities and working conditions of the Palestinian refugees (Finland); 84.11. Strengthen efforts to assist Palestinians living in Lebanon who are lacking identity documents so that it will be possible for them to live a decent life (Palestine); 84.12. Strengthen the capacity of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Commission to assist Palestinian Refugees as a step to improve the human rights and humanitarian situation for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon (United Kingdom); 84.13. Extend an open and standing invitation to the special procedures, as a gesture of Lebanon’s openness and commitment to cooperate with the human rights international mechanisms (Mexico); 84.14. Extend an open and standing invitation to the special procedures of the Human Rights Council (Spain); Issue a standing invitation to all UN special procedures (Poland). 85. All conclusions and/or recommendations contained in the present report reflect the position of the submitting State(s) and/or the State under review. They should not be construed as endorsed by the Working Group as a whole. 21

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