OFFICE OF THE OMBUDSMAN, SAMOA Samoa’s Second Universal Periodic Review Implementation Comments Recommendation Position 75.10.Sign the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Morocco); Supported (See para. 5 addendum p. 2) Not implemented See comment 75.8. 75.11.Consider ratifying the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Slovenia, United Kingdom); consider the possibility of acceding to and/or ratifying the Optional Protocols of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Ecuador); Supported (See para. 5 addendum p. 2) Not implemented See comment 75.8. 75.12.Ratify the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Maldives); Supported (See para. 5 addendum p. 2) Not implemented See comment 75.8. 76.1.Consider the possibility of acceding to and/or ratifying International Labour Organization Convention No. 169 (1989) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (Ecuador); Noted Not implemented Cooperation with treaty bodies 73.27.Request assistance from OHCHR in preparing a common core document to streamline treaty reporting (Maldives); Supported NHRI unable to comment Cooperation with special procedures 73.28.Issue a standing invitation to the United Nations special procedures (Slovenia); consider extending a standing invitation to the United Nations special procedures (Brazil); Supported NHRI unable to comment Cooperation with international with other international mechanisms and institutions 73.26.Continue to seek technical cooperation and assistance from the international community, such as OHCHR and UNFPA, in relevant areas, particularly capacity-building for preparing its national reports under human rights conventions to which Samoa is a party (Thailand); Supported Implemented Supported Partly Constitutional and legislative framework 75.29.Take appropriate measures to make the promotion of gender equality an explicit component of its national development plan and policies and to include in its Constitution or 21 Some measures to promote gender equality are included in