of National Human Rights Promotion and Protection Institutions. 479. Following the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on 10 July 2010 by Togo, the NHRC has been designated by the Government to assume the functions of a national mechanism for the prevention of torture. 480. In order to enable this institution to accomplish its missions, in accordance with the requirements of this protocol, the draft organic law on the composition, organization and functioning of the NHRC was adopted by the Council of Ministers on 31 May 2017. Articles 27, 28 and 29: Individuals have duties towards the family, the society, other communities and the international community 481. With regard to international commitments, the instruments contain not only rights, but also obligations imposed on the individual with regard to his fellow human beings. In this regard, Togo is party to several international human rights intruments in order to compel each Togolese citizen to respect certain international obligations. These instruments include: - the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, to which Togo acceded on 1 September 1972; - the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, acceded to on 26 September 1983; - the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Togo acceded on 24 May 1984; - Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, ratified on 18 November 1987; - the Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified on 1 August 1990; - the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, ratified on 20 July 2010. 482. As for international morality, it instills in the individual attitudes of international solidarity. Thus, every person has the duty of solidarity towards his fellow beings who find themselves in any difficult situation anywhere in the world. This duty of solidarity can be shown in natural or technological disasters that may be experienced by a brotherly people in any part of the world. It can equally be shown through messages of compassion, gifts, legacies as well as receiving other peoples on the 135