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Summer 2017
DEFENDERS
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- Stop building artificial islands which negatively affect the Persian Gulf
environment.
- Take steps to join the following conventions and protocols:
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: 1976
- Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights: 1976
- Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death
penalty: 1991
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women: 2000
- Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: 2006
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
on the involvement of children in armed conflict: 2002
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
on a communications procedure: 2014
- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of
All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families: 2003
- International Convention for the Protection of all Persons
from Enforced Disappearance: 2010