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detainees, and he reiterated that France will continue to upgrade to renovate its centres at a rapid
pace.
II. CONCLUSIONS AND/OR RECOMMENDATIONS
60.
In the course of the discussion, the following recommendations were made to France:
1.
To complete the domestic process in order to ratify the International
Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance as
soon as possible (Albania);
2.
To accede to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All
Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (Egypt);
3.
o remove reservations and interpretative statements to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Russian Federation);
4.
To consider the possibility of withdrawing its reservations to article 4 of the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (Cuba);
5.
To withdraw the declaration under article 124 of the Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court (Mexico);
6.
To include information on the implementation of the treaties in its overseas
territories in its national reports to treaty bodies on a regular basis (Russian
Federation);
7.
To make efforts to enforce existing anti-discrimination legislation more
effectively, and consider compiling statistics on ethnic minority groups in order
to assess the extent and causes of inequality and evaluate the effectiveness of
measures in place to address it (United Kingdom);
8.
To finalize all outstanding cases of discrimination that have occurred since 2006
(Indonesia);
9.
To implement the recommendation of the Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination to take all preventive measures to put an end to racist
incidents involving members of security forces or other public officials
(Guatemala);
10.
To adopt a law banning incitement to religious and racial hatred (Egypt);
11.
To intensify its struggle against racism (Haiti);
12.
To consider its commitment in line with paragraph 101 of the Durban
Declaration when addressing questions with respect to legislation and studies
on colonialism and the slave trade, in particular with respect to overseas
territories (Egypt);
13.
To take effective measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination against
immigrant women in accessing basic social services (South Africa);
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