Reporting Obligation and Cooperation with the Commission The Commission: i. u. in. welcomes the efforts made in preparing and presenting its Report and commends the latter for fulfilling its obligations under Article 62 of the African Charter and Article 26 of the Maputo Protocol; commends the preparatory process of the Report which was participatory and involved different stakeholders from public and private sectors including representatives from the National Institutions on Human Rights and Civil Society Organisations (CSO); and commends the efforts made in responding to some of the recommendations of the Commission in its Concluding Observations on its 1st Periodic Report. Ratification of Regional/International Human Rights Instruments 9. The Commission commends the ratification of the following regional international human rights instruments during the reporting period: i. a. Hi. XV. v. vi. vii. viii. ix. x. xi. xii. xiii. xiv. xv. xvi. 3 | Pa g e and African Youth Charter; Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa; African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child; Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples 'Rights on the Establishment ofan African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights; African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance; African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption; Protocol to the OAU Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism; Convention on the Nationality ofMarried Women; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty; Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict; Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography; Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

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