ADDENDUM: 45 recommendations rejected by Vietnam UPR 2014

5.Consider ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Djibouti);

6.Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Portugal, Uruguay);

7.Consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to ICESCR (Spain)/Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to ICESCR (Portugal);

8.Ratify the First Optional Protocol to ICCPR; the Optional Protocol to CAT and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED) (Portugal);

15.Promptly ratify CAT and sign its Optional Protocol (France)/Ensure speedy ratification of CAT and the Optional Protocol thereto (Czech Republic)/Ratify CAT and its Optional Protocol (Austria, Uruguay);

16.Take a step further by becoming a party to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (Thailand);

27.Ratify/accede to the Rome Statute and implement it fully at the national level, and accede to the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities of the Court (Slovakia)/Ratify the Rome Statute and fully align its national legislation with all obligations under the Rome Statute (Latvia)/ Accede to the Rome Statute as amended at the Review Conference in Kampala in 2010 and align its national legislation with all obligations under the Rome Statute (Liechtenstein);

30.Strengthen its legal and institutional framework by ratifying CAT and its Optional Protocol, CPED and the Rome Statute (Tunisia);

40.Establish an independent national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles (Portugal, Spain);

41.Establish a national human rights institution in conformity with the Paris Principles (Congo, France, Madagascar, Togo);

42.Accelerate the process aimed at the establishment of a national human rights institution in conformity with the Paris Principles, and extend a standing invitation to special procedures (Tunisia);

71.Issue a standing invitation to special procedures (Austria)/Issue a standing invitation to all special procedures (Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Greece)/Extend a standing invitation to all thematic special procedures (Montenegro)/Extend an open invitation to all special procedures of the Human Rights Council (Uruguay);

72.Extend a standing invitation to all special procedures mandate holders as a sign of goodwill to cooperate fully with all human rights mechanisms (Germany);

73.Accept all outstanding and new requests from mandate holders to visit the country (Hungary);

91.Reduce the number of crimes punishable by death by December 2014 (United Kingdom);

93.Further reduce the number of crimes carrying the death penalty and publish figures on death verdicts (Germany);

96.Consider abolition of the death penalty in the near future (Greece);

97.Consider establishing a moratorium on the death penalty (Ecuador);

98.Consider a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to its eventual abolition (Slovenia);

99.Consider a moratorium on the use of the death penalty with a view to its abolition (Namibia);

100.Consider imposing a moratorium on execution of death penalties while assessing the possibility of adopting the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR aimed at the abolition of the death penalty (Brazil);

101.Continue to work towards abolition of the death penalty and consider adopting an immediate de facto moratorium (Portugal);

102.Reintroduce a moratorium on executions with a view to abolition of the death penalty (Czech Republic);

103.Establish a moratorium on executions with a view to removing the death penalty from its criminal statutes and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR (Australia)

104.Establish a moratorium on the death penalty with a view to becoming a party to the second Optional Protocol to ICCPR, and continue with efforts to uphold all international human rights standards, including civil and political rights (Estonia);

105.Establish a moratorium on the use of the death penalty with a view to its abolition, and, in the meantime, ensure full compliance in all death penalty cases with international fair trial standards (Lithuania);

106.Establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty (France);

107.Establish an official moratorium on the use of the death penalty with a view to abolition (Montenegro);

108.Establish a moratorium on executions with a view to the total abolition of capital punishment (Belgium);

109.Institute a moratorium on the application of the death penalty (Togo);

110.Immediately adopt a moratorium on the death penalty as a first step towards its abolition (Austria);

111.Adopt an indefinite moratorium on the death penalty and commute current convictions to achieve its total abolition (Spain);

112.Declare a moratorium on the capital punishment; until that, promptly reduce the number of offences subject to death penalty and publish statistics about the use of death penalty in Viet Nam (Sweden);

113.Publish precise information on the identity and number of convicted persons currently on death row (Belgium);

115.Take into account the opinions of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on the release of around 30 persons detained arbitrarily since the last UPR (Switzerland);

116.Implement the opinions of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on individuals and release the individuals concerned (New Zealand);

117.Immediately release all prisoners held in arbitrary detention and recompense them as requested by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (Germany);

118.Revise vague national security laws that are used to suppress universal rights, and unconditionally release all political prisoners, such as Dr. Cu Huy Ha Vu, Le Quoc Quan, Dieu Cay and Tran Huynh Duy Thuc (United States of America);

136.Provide public information on the number of detention camps, including administrative detention centres for drug treatment set up by the police, the military and the Ministry of Labour, on the number of persons detained therein; as well as on all forms of work in which detainees are involved (Austria)

151.Repeal or amend ambiguous provisions relating to national security in the Penal Code to prevent those provisions being applied in an arbitrary manner to stifle legitimate and peaceful dissent, debate and freedom of expression (Denmark)

152.Repeal or modify the Penal Code relating to national security particularly Articles 79, 88 and 258, in order to prevent those articles from being applied in an arbitrary manner to impede freedom of opinion and expression, including on the Internet (France);

160.Take measures to ensure the effective protection of the right to freedom of expression and information, as well as the independence of the media, and release all human rights defenders, journalists, and religious and political dissidents detained for the peaceful expression of their opinion (Czech Republic);

176.Adopt measures to end prosecution of peaceful protesters (Greece);

177.Enhance equal political participation of its citizens, including by taking steps towards multi-party democracy (Czech Republic);

226.Explore the possibilities for technical support, for instance through the Working Group on Enabling and Protecting Civil Society of the Community of Democracies (Canada);