CAT/C/TGO/CO/2 21. The Committee encourages the State party to consider making the declaration under article 22 of the Convention, recognizing the competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications from individuals. 22. The Committee invites the State party to consider ratifying the core United Nations human rights instruments to which it is not yet a party, namely: the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty; the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families; and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. 23. The State party is requested to widely disseminate the report submitted to the Committee as well as the present concluding observations, in appropriate languages, through official websites, the media and non-governmental organizations. 24. The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 23 November 2013, information on follow-up to the following recommendations: (a) ensure the entry into force of the new Criminal Code and the new Code of Criminal Procedure as a matter of urgency; (b) urgently improve conditions of detention; (c) strengthen or ensure respect for the legal safeguards to which detainees are entitled; and (d) prosecute and punish perpetrators of acts of torture and ill-treatment, as contained in paragraphs 8, 10 (a), (b) and (c), 11 (a), (b) and (e), and 13 (d), (e) and (f) of this document. 25. The Committee invites the State party to present its next periodic report, which will be its third, by 23 November 2016. The Committee also invites the State party to agree, before 23 November 2013, to submit that report under the optional procedure whereby the Committee sends the State party a list of issues prior to submission of its periodic report. The replies of the State party to the list of issues would constitute its third periodic report under article 19 of the Convention. 10 GE.12-48668