A/HRC/17/33/Add.2 sex tourism, within Senegal. Senegalese women and girls are trafficked to neighboring countries, the Middle East, and Europe for domestic servitude and possibly for sexual exploitation. Women and girls from other West African countries, particularly Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone may be trafficked to Senegal for sexual exploitation, including for sex tourism. Children are trafficked to Senegal from neighbouring countries for forced begging, whereas Senegalese children are trafficked mainly to other African countries for forced labour in gold mines. III. Normative and institutional framework for the protection of the rights of migrants in Senegal A. The international and regional legal framework 1. International level 29. Senegal has ratified all core human rights instruments, except the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. At the time of writing, it had signed, but not yet ratified, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol. 30. Senegal has also ratified the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. The Special Rapporteur was encouraged to learn during his visit that the governmental report to the Committee on Migrant Workers, which had been long overdue, was being finalized in accordance with, inter alia, the recommendation addressed to and supported by Senegal within the universal periodic review the State underwent in 2008.11 The Special Rapporteur is pleased to note that the report was submitted to the Committee in December 2009. 31. In addition Senegal has ratified the main ILO instruments on labour rights, including the Convention concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour, 1930 (No. 29), the Convention concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize, 1948 (No. 87), the Convention concerning the Application of the Right to Organize and to Bargain Collectively, 1949 (No. 98), and the Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 (No. 182). Senegal has yet to ratify the Convention concerning Migration for Employment, 1949 (No. 97) and the Convention concerning Migrant Workers in Abusive Conditions and the Promotion of Equality of Opportunity and Treatment of Migrant Workers, 1975 (No. 143), but discussions have started towards their ratification. 32. By virtue of Act No. 17 (2003), Senegal ratified the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols: the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air. 33. Senegal is party to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) and its 1967 Protocol. 2. Regional level 34. At the regional level, Senegal is party to the African human rights instruments, including the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and its Protocol on the Rights 11 8 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Senegal (A/HRC/11/24), para. 72.