CRC/GC/2003/5 page 20 Annex I RATIFICATION OF OTHER KEY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS As noted in paragraph 17 of the present general comment, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, as part of its consideration of general measures of implementation, and in the light of the principles of indivisibility and interdependence of human rights, consistently urges States parties, if they have not already done so, to ratify the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography) and the six other major international human rights instruments. During its dialogue with States parties the Committee often encourages them to consider ratifying other relevant international instruments. A non-exhaustive list of these instruments is annexed here. The Committee will update this from time to time. − 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 against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; − Convention against Discrimination in Education; − ILO Forced Labour Convention No. 29, 1930; − ILO Convention No. 105 on Abolition of Forced Labour, 1957; − ILO Convention No. 138 Concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment, 1973; − ILO Convention No. 182 on Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999; − ILO Convention No. 183 on Maternity Protection, 2000; − Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951, as amended by the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees of 1967; − Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949); − Slavery Convention (1926);