A/HRC/17/4 79.1. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) and ICCPR-OP 1 (Hungary); sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to ICESCR, ICCPR-OP 1, OP-CAT and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from the Enforced Disappearance (CED) (Spain); consider ratifying outstanding international human rights instruments, and update domestic legislation to be in line with the provisions of those international treaties (South Africa); consider ratifying OP-CAT (Azerbaijan); ratify OP-CAT and thereby allow country visits (Germany); become party to OP-CAT and establish an official national preventive mechanism (Maldives); ratify and implement in national law the outstanding core international human rights treaties, in particular OP-ICESCR and CED (Netherlands); sign, ratify and incorporate into national legislation key human rights treaties, such as ICCPR-OP 1, OP-CAT and CED (Sweden); 79.2. Respond to all the cases submitted by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, sign and ratify CED, and fully recognize the competency of the Committee (France); 79.3. Accelerate the revision of the Genocide Ideology Law by precisely defining the crime in line with international standards, and ensuring that intention, assistance and incitement to genocide are clearly stated in the definition (Switzerland); review the definition of “genocide ideology” in the homonymous 2008 law so that it allows for diversity of opinion (Austria); review the 2008 Genocide Ideology Law and other related laws to bring them in line with international standards through a more precise and restrictive definition of the crime, including a clear statement of intent to commit, assist or incite genocide (Italy); continue the review of genocide ideology and related laws, and rigorously apply the provisions of article 20 of ICCPR by taking strictly necessary and proportionate measures (Belgium); 79.4. Ensure the law relating to the punishment of the crime of “genocide ideology” is not manipulated or interpreted in a manner that restricts the responsible exercise of the freedom of opinion, expression or association (Australia); specify the definition and legal scope of the term “divisionism” and revise Law 18/2008 punishing the crime of “genocide ideology” in order to prevent its abuse for political or partisan purposes (Canada); 79.5. Accelerate the legal reform process in order to ensure that all discriminatory provisions in the legislation are abolished (Moldova); 79.6. Adopt new measures to find a solution to the problem of overcrowding in prisons (Algeria); strengthen measures taken within the reform policies to make the prison system more humane, in particular through training of personnel and improved prison administration (Morocco); separate convicted offenders from pretrial detainees (Austria); 79.7. Pursue justice-system reforms, in particular with regard to strengthening the independence of the judiciary with focus on eliminating corruption and political interference (Slovakia); adopt measures to strengthen the independence of the judiciary and guard against corruption and political interference (United States); continue reforms of the justice system, in particular measures to strengthen the independence of the judiciary and reinforce witness protection (Austria); continue to reform the justice system to enhance the independence of the judiciary and improve witness protection (Australia); continue the reform of the judiciary in order to give more 16

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