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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
95- Preparation of a programme with
the aimof reduction of the growth of Islam
phobia and xenophobia within society.
96- Creation of a legislative and
executive basis against racist campaigns
committed against immigrants and
minorities.
97- Adopt a fair immigration policy,
and cease xenophobia, racism and
intolerance to ethnic, religious and
migrant minorities.
98-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
99- 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.
100- Close without any delay all
detention facilities at the Guantanamo
Bay as President Barack Obama has
promised.
101- Invite United Nations Special
Rapporteurs to visit and investigate
Guantanamo Bay prison and United
States secret prisons and to subsequently
close them.
102- Prosecute the perpetrators of
tortures, extrajudicial executions and
other serious violations of human rights
committed in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib,
Bagram, theNAMAandBALADcamps,
and those carried out by the Joint Special
Operations Command and the CIA.
Woman & children
103- 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.
104- 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.
105- End the execution of mentally-ill
persons and minors.
106- Further foster its measures in
relation to migrant women and foreign
adopted children that are exposed to
domestic violence.
107-Define, prohibit and punish
the trafficking of persons and child
prostitution.
108- Prevent slavery of agriculture
workers, in particular children and
women.
109- 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.