A/HRC/15/5 98.3. Ratify the Second Optional Protocol of the ICCPR, and formally establish a moratorium on the use of the death penalty with a view to its abolition (Italy); 98.4. Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (Switzerland, Spain); 98.5. Ratify the Optional Protocol to CEDAW (Canada, Spain); 98.6. Ratify/accede to the Rome Statute of the ICC (Canada, France, Luxembourg); 98.7. Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Spain); 98.8. Consider acceding to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (Egypt); 98.9. Ratify the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (Switzerland); 98.10. Become a party to the Ottawa Convention on Landmines (Canada); 98.11. Further harmonize its national legislation with the international obligations of Laos under the respective conventions, and accede to instruments allowing for individual complaints (Finland); 98.12. Develop a national human rights plan of action to improve awareness of the conventions to which the Lao People’s Democratic Republic is a party, and encourage civil society engagement on human rights issues (Germany); 98.13. Consider issuing a standing invitation to special procedures (Brazil); consider extending an open invitation to the special procedures (Armenia); 98.14. Extend an open and standing invitation to all special procedures (Spain); issue a standing invitation to the special procedures (Canada); 98.15. Invite the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders to visit the country in the near future (Norway); 98.16. Seek the assistance of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing to mitigate the problem of the lack of adequate land and assistance to the rural population (Spain); 98.17. Adopt measures to legally abolish the death penalty (Germany); 98.18. Broaden the current de facto moratorium on the death penalty so as to abolish it in all cases, including serious crimes, and sign and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR (Spain); 98.19. Impose an immediate de jure moratorium on executions, with a view to the complete abolition of the death penalty for all crimes (Belgium); 98.20. Commute without delay death sentences to prison terms, and definitively abolish capital punishment in all circumstances (France); abolish the death penalty, which is still in effect despite the de facto moratorium on capital punishment (Finland); 98.21. Adopt and implement a national action plan to combat trafficking in persons, emphasizing the protection of indigenous women and migrants (Mexico); 19