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79.2. Look into the possibility of progressively acceding to or ratifying the
major human rights conventions, starting with the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (Algeria);
79.3.
Ratify ICPPR (United States of America);
79.4. Ratify ICCPR and sign and ratify the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) (United Kingdom);
79.5. Promptly ratify and implement in national laws the outstanding core
human rights treaties, including ICESCR and ICCPR and its two optional
protocols (Sweden);
79.6. Consider ratifying the following international instruments:
the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (CERD); ICESCR; ICCPR; the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its protocol; the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and its
protocols; the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) and its protocol; the 1951
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol; and ILO
fundamental conventions (Brazil);
79.7. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the
Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, which
has already been signed by the Government (Hungary);
79.8.
Ratify CEDAW (Canada; Azerbaijan);
79.9.
Continue towards ratification and implement of CEDAW (Australia);
79.10. Ratify CEDAW in parallel with enacting and implementing specific
legislation to fight violence against women, with the possible assistance of the
Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (Hungary);
79.11. Ratify CEDAW and meanwhile continue efforts to review existing
legislation, policy and practice to ensure protection for the rights of women
(New Zealand);
79.12. Consider the early ratification of CEDAW (Trinidad and Tobago);
79.13. Ratify the two International Covenants as well as CAT, CEDAW,
CERD, CRPD and the International Convention for the Protection of All
Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED), with their respective optional
protocols, including the two Optional Protocols to CRC (Spain);
79.14. Study the possibility of being party to the following international
instruments: ICCPR, ICESCR, CEDAW, CAT and CED (Argentina);
79.15. Ratify the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime (Canada);
79.16. Ratify CAT and align fully the definition of the crime in its domestic
law with that in the Convention (Canada);
79.17. Complete its international commitments by ratifying those instruments
which it has already signed, and initiate the process for the signing and
subsequent ratification of CED and CRPD (France);
79.18. Sign and ratify CRPD (Mauritius);
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