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its detention facilities at home and abroad.
- Take appropriate legislative and practical
measures to improve living conditions through
its prisons systems, in particular with regard to
access to health care and education.
-Investigationoftorturesallegation,extrajudicial
executions and other serious violations of human
rights committed in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib,
Bagram, the NAMA and BALAD camps, and
those carried out by the Joint Special Operations
Command and the CIA.
Minorities
Preparation of a programme with the aim of
reduction of the growth of Islam phobia and
xenophobia within society.
- Creation of a legislative and executive basis
against racist campaigns committed against
immigrants and minorities.
- Adopt a fair immigration policy, and cease
xenophobia, racism and intolerance to ethnic,
religious and migrant minorities.
-Promote equal socio-economic as well as
educational opportunities for all both in law and
in fact, regardless of their ethnicity, race, religion,
national origin, gender or disability.
Guantanamo
- Quickly close down Guantanamo prison
and follow the provision of the United Nations
Charter and the Security Council Resolution by
expatriating the terrorist suspect to their country
of origin.
- Close without any delay all detention facilities
at the Guantanamo Bay as President Barack
Obama has promised.
- Invite United Nations Special Rapporteurs to
visit and investigate Guantanamo Bay prison and
United States secret prisons and to subsequently
close them.
- Prosecute the perpetrators of tortures,
extrajudicial executions and other serious
violations of human rights committed in
Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, the NAMA
and BALAD camps, and those carried out by
the Joint Special Operations Command and the
CIA.
Woman & children
- Take the necessary measures to consider
lifting the United States reservation to article
5, paragraph 6 of the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights that bans the imposition
of the death penalty for crimes committed by
persons under 18.
- Consider raising to 18 years the minimum age
for the voluntary recruitment to the armed forces,
and explicitly define as a crime the violation of
the provisions of the Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
involvement of children in armed conflict.
- End the execution of mentally-ill persons and
minors.
- Further foster its measures in relation to
migrant women and foreign adopted children
that are exposed to domestic violence.
-Define, prohibit and punish the trafficking of
persons and child prostitution.
- Prevent slavery of agriculture workers, in
particular children and women.
- Take the necessary measures in favor of the
right to work and fair conditions of work so that
workers belonging to minorities, in particular
women and undocumented migrant workers, do
not become victims of discriminatory treatment
and abuse in the work place and enjoy the full
protection of the labour legislation, regardless of
their migratory status.