. Encourage ratification of treaties not yet ratified such as: o The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) - economic social and cultural rights issues; o Optional Protocol to ICESCR - communications procedure thereto; o Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) - establishment of a National Preventative Mechanism (NPM); o International Convention on the Protection of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (ICRMW) - issues concerning migrant workers and their families; o International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPED) - providing for issues relating to enforced disappearance; and o 3rd Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (OP3-CRC) - communications procedure thereto. . Use international human rights standards and principles (General Comments/Recommendations and Concluding Observations) as benchmarks in drafting laws or scrutinizing legislative proposals (practices in Finland and United Kingdom were given as examples). . Through ensuring public participation in law making, it could also promote human rights. . Use its law making powers to increase awareness about the Treaty Bodies. . Request Department of International Relations and Co-operation and responsible government departments, to keep the Committee up to date on the status of South Africa's reporting obligations. . Facilitate the domestication of human rights treaties in South Africa. . Publicise and drive awareness campaigns domestically, on the proceedings before the Treaty Body and the Concluding Observations and Recommendations. . Monitor the implementation by government of Concluding Observations issued by treaty monitoring bodies.