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Summary: A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the first Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National Report', the 'Compilation of UN Information' and the 'Summary of Stakeholder's Information'. Also included is the final report and the list of accepted and rejected recommendations. Paraguay - 10th Session - 2011 Scroll to: National Report 10. The strategic objective of the human rights plan is to provide training and an institutional framework for the Government's human resources. In 2010, a total of 10 days' training was provided by OHCHR for 80 officials in 2 courses; the courses covered international human rights mechanisms and the treaty-bodies review system. Pursuant to the Plan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has laid the foundations of a system to monitor and follow up the United Nations human rights instruments by organizing round tables on the preparation of reports for the following bodies: the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, the Committee on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, the Convention against Torture and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. In addition, human rights is a mandatory subject for anyone desiring to join or be promoted in the diplomatic and consular corps. 12. The judicial branch has set up a human rights office (Decision No. 759/00), a technical and administrative body known as the Human Rights Unit, with a broad mandate that was expanded by Act No. 31/02.6 Its brief is to promote and protect human rights within the sphere of the Judiciary by cooperating with a number of governmental and non-governmental entities. Its work focuses essentially on the administration of justice in a number of spheres assigned priority: children and adolescents, gender, indigenous affairs, international systems for the protection of human rights (United Nations Organization of American States), economic, social and cultural rights, persons who are vulnerable or disabled and communication. 44. The Prosecution Service has a training centre where its officials are given training on children's and gender issues, human rights, criminal and procedural law; each year 3,000 officials receive training. The Prosecution Service operates and is administered independently in accordance with Act No. 1560/00 and its budget increased by 26 percentage points between 2007 and 2010. 60. The Constitution stipulates that custodial measures require that adolescents be detained in special facilities designed to fulfil an educative purpose. To meet this requirement, rehabilitation centres have been built in Villarrica, Ciudad del Este and Concepción and the infrastructure and equipment of the other centres have been improved thanks to an investment of US$ 330,868 during the period 2008/09, a 13 per cent increase in their budget over the last two years. 61. The centres have teaching units and workshops to provide work training, thanks to which it has been possible to implement adult literacy programmes in all rehabilitation centres. A total of 250 adolescents were enrolled in the programmes: 40 per cent of them were illiterates or functional illiterates, 48 per cent had completed the fourth grade and 12 per cent the intermediate remote education programme. 62. Work training was provided via the National Vocational Advancement Service, the National Labour Skills and Training Service and the Prolabor programmes for the benefit of 88 per cent of the adolescent detainee population. In addition, the 2009–2010 training plan, with an emphasis on gender issues, was provided for 173 staff in rehabilitation centres. 63. There is a need to ensure effective implementation of government policy in respect of adolescent offenders. 77. In 2008, inter-institutional mechanisms were developed to ensure, uphold, protect and promote the rights of women and girls; these mechanisms sought to involve society as a whole. In addition, divisions for women and girl victims of violence were set up in three police stations in the metropolitan area and three in the hinterland. A workshop was help to allow an exchange of methods of action and intervention in order to strengthen and improve the services offered to victims of gender violence. 83. After ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a number of changes were made to legislation. These included Act No. 1136/97 on Adoption and Act No. 1680/01 Children's and Adolescents' Code. 84. The Children's and Adolescent's Code established the National System for Comprehensive Protection and Advancement of Children and Adolescents, which comprises the National Council for Children and Adolescents. Its strategic Plan for 2008–2013 hinges on the implementation of government policies to provide comprehensive care, ensure institutions are properly managed and to restore the rights of vulnerable children and adolescents. 85. The National Secretariat for Children and Adolescents, which was set up by the Children's and Adolescent's Code, is responsible for implementing the public policies of the National System for Comprehensive Protection and Advancement; these include the National Policy for Children and Adolescents 2003–2013; the National Plan of Action 2003–2008 and three sectoral plans: the Plan to Prevent and Eradicate Child Labour and to Provide Protection for Adolescent Workers; the Plan to Prevent and Eradicate the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents and the Plan to Prevent and Eradicate the Ill-Treatment and Sexual Abuse of Children and Adolescents. 87. The Fono Ayuda telephone helpline, which was set up to allow children and adolescents to lodge complaints, was reorganized in 2009 to offer three services: a helpline, one-to-one advice and emergency intervention and is open 15 hours each day. As of March 2010, 6,457 cases had been dealt with. It operates with a budget of US$ 152,507. 88. The Centre for Adoption caters for children who have lost their family or who are at risk of losing it, and operates through the courts. The Alternative Care Unit for Children and Adolescents has been operating since 2010. It looks after 2,500 children in institutional care. It has a policy of family placement as a first step to removing children from the institutional environment by encouraging forms of temporary placement in families, while giving priority to the preservation of links with their biological family and community of origin through adoption. 89. Since 2009, through its Women, Child and Adolescent Victims of Violence Division, the Police Force has operated specialized units that receive on average one phone call every 12 minutes and one complaint every 2 hours. 90. By Decision No. 03/10 the Ministry of Justice and Labour has established a team to modernize the system of management of homes by implementing the Human Rights Council's Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children and the recommendations made by the Committee on the Rights of the Child to Paraguay. These are reflected in the Regulations applicable to Ara Pyahu (New Sky), Temporary Shelter which takes in some 98 children each year. 91. The Supreme Court has pressed ahead with its Family Placement Programme designed to provide specialized care for children removed from their families by the courts and its Programme for Adolescent Offenders,29 which provides multidisciplinary care for adolescents sent to prison. In 2009, 203 persons were concerned by the Programme. We need to take up the challenge to strengthen these programmes in order to expand the coverage they offer. 95. According to data jointly produced by the National Secretariat for Children and Adolescents, the Presidential Office Secretariat for Women and the Prosecution service, in 2004–2008 there were 84 complaints concerning trafficking for sexual exploitation or work. Of these complaints, 90 per cent were from Argentina and the victims were from the country's interior. A total of 32 persons were repatriated, most of them women. Of the total number of repatriations, 58 per cent were to Argentina, 23 per cent to Bolivia, 15 per cent to Spain and 4 per cent to other countries. 98. Under the Programme to Provide Support for Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons, and especially Women and Girls, the Directorate-General for Statistics, Surveys and Censuses has set up a statistical register of victims of trafficking in persons, covering institutions involved in providing them with assistance. The register has made it possible to develop a database and to map routes used by trafficking. Periodically updating the database is another challenge that will have to be met. 107. The National Institute for the Protection of Exceptional Persons, which was established by Act No. 780/79 as a dependency of the Ministry of Education and Culture, offers diagnosis and rehabilitation for disabled persons. It provides training in sign language and implements the rehabilitation programme of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Division, through which training of physiotherapists for children has begun. There are currently 45,840 registered regular users. In 2009–2010, approximately 187,000 persons with some form of disability received assistance. 129. A total of 35,503 pupils received 4,246 litres of milk and 2,740,557 kilograms of bread under the food supplement programme, thanks to which both school attendance and nutritional coverage improved. 144. In accordance with the national Constitution, basic education in State schools is both obligatory and free of charge. Paraguay offers a bilingual education curriculum in Guaran and Spanish for all pupils and at all levels of the education system. Literacy programmes in their mother tongue are available for indigenous populations, who may choose another official language as their second language. 146. The efforts made by the State to improve the conditions determining access to education while respecting cultural characteristics are reflected in the improvements made to policies for access to education for students at all levels, as a result of which 1,432 teachers' posts and classrooms have been provided to cater for 3,000 students. In 2010 improvements were made to the infrastructure of 1,271 educational establishments. There are plans to build 30,000 classrooms and 9,000 sanitary facilities and to purchase 1,570,000 items of furniture for use in schools by 2013. Free school kits have been distributed to 1,000,400 pupils at the preschool, basic and secondary levels. During 2010, 20 videoconference centres were set up and 400 wireless Internet connections provided in State schools to improve access to the new information and communication technologies. 147. In 2010 the population benefiting from the literacy programme increased to approximately 20,000 vulnerable persons throughout the country, their ages ranging from 13 to 17 years. 149. Act No. 3231/07 established the Directorate-General for Indigenous Schooling (DGEEI) to foster and develop education with the participation and for the benefit of indigenous peoples through an inter- and multicultural approach. In order to institutionalize this effort it was necessary to provide it with an independent operating budget to enable indigenous communities to manage their own education policies autonomously. 150. In 2007, the indigenous school census registered 18,139 pupils, a number that had increased to 22,332 in 2009, with 517 indigenous teachers. Nationwide, there are 456 indigenous establishments: 403 primary schools, 18 secondary schools and 35 further education centres. Of this number, 97 per cent are State establishments and in 2009–2010 58 new establishments were opened. Permanent positions were created for 35 graduates working in multicultural education in indigenous schools in the Paï Tavyterä community. 1. In 2010, the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) recommended that Paraguay ratify the Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. 4. In 2010, CRC regretted that the national legislation was not fully in conformity with the Convention. It was also concerned that the bill to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure was still under consideration and did not coincide with the CNA (Código de la Niñez y la Adolescencia) in terms of juvenile criminal procedure. 5. The United Nations country team in Paraguay (UNCT) reported that the Criminal Code had reduced the penalties for child pornography and that, in cases of abuse, the decision to prosecute had to come from the victim even if the victim was a minor, and the penalty was a fine only. The Committee on the Rights of the Child made much the same points. 7. CRC recommended that Paraguay strengthen the role of the National Council for Childhood and Adolescence and allocate adequate resources to ensure effective coordination among the different institutions responsible for children rights. 8. CRC recommended that Paraguay clearly define the mandate of the Department for Rights of Children and Adolescents of the Ombudsman, effectively disseminate its annual reports, and ensure that complaints mechanisms are easily accessible and child-sensitive. 9. CRC recommended that Paraguay identify possible deficiencies and assess the progress achieved under the National Plan of Action for Children and Adolescents (2003–2008), and to adopt a new National Plan of Action with sufficient resources. 11. The United Nations country team in Paraguay said that the system of juvenile justice was still not linked to the national child protection system and there were no preventive policies in place to develop children's social skills and facilitate their integration into society. It added that the lack of data on women deprived of their liberty was striking, as was the record of violence by State officials in prisons. 12. In 2005, Paraguay adopted the United Nations Plan of Action (2005–2009) for the World Programme for Human Rights Education focusing on the national school system. In primary and secondary schools, human rights is taught, inter alia, in social sciences courses. 14. In 2007, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) regretted that most of its 1996 recommendations were not fully implemented, and that Paraguay did not address more effectively the following subjects of concern: the slow pace of agrarian reform; the wage gap between men and women; the persistence of domestic violence; the lack of minimum wage guarantee for all workers; the fact that trade union rights were not fully guaranteed; the high proportion of the population excluded from any form of social security; the high number of child workers; and the fact that the right to health was not guaranteed. 16. CRC encouraged Paraguay to submit its initial reports under the two Optional Protocols to the Convention.26 CESCR invited Paraguay to update its core document in accordance with the harmonized guidelines on reporting compiled in 2006. 21. While welcoming the fact that the rights of the indigenous have been set as a priority in the platform of the new government,40 CRC remained concerned, as highlighted by the ILO Committee of Experts,41 about discrimination faced by the indigenous population, which resulted in various inequalities for children. 24. SPT also recommended that Paraguay give the necessary priority to the adoption of the bill aimed at establishing a National Preventive Mechanism, which has been pending in the Senate since January 2009.49 CRC made a similar recommendation. 30. Following a visit in March 2004, the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography reported that the sexual exploitation of children and young persons was a fact of life in Paraguay, but difficult to quantify due to lack of adequate statistical data. He added that the majority of child victims of sexual exploitation had previously suffered sexual and/or physical abuse and that the level of sexual abuse and domestic violence against children, especially girls and women, was alarming. 31. CRC was concerned that Paraguay continued to be a source and destination country for women and children victims of trafficking,64 and urged to ensure the protection of children from trafficking and sale.65 CRC was also concerned that the National Plan for the Prevention and Eradication of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children had not been carried out, due to a lack of public funding.66 CEDAW was concerned that domestic legislation on sexual exploitation and trafficking of minors was not in line with international standards. 34. CRC was concerned that there was no explicit prohibition of corporal punishment and that corporal punishment was culturally accepted as a form of education and family discipline. CRC recommended the prohibition of corporal punishment by law in all settings, as well as an effective monitoring system and awareness campaigns aimed at changing the general attitude towards this practice. 35. While welcoming the efforts to eradicate child labour, CRC expressed concern that there were no reliable statistics and no specialized unit to monitor and inspect the working conditions of children. The Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography reported that criadazgo — the practice of using children to perform domestic tasks in exchange for board, lodging and, sometimes, basic education — was a serious problem. CRC was also gravely concerned by the persistence of this practice and by the fact that it had not yet been defined as an offence by law. 36. CRC was concerned at the high number of children living or working in the street, and recommended that Paraguay ensure that children in such situations be provided with adequate protection, assistance, nutrition and shelter as well as with health care and educational opportunities. 39. CRC was concerned at the wide use of preventive detention for children between 16 and 18 years, as well as the precarious conditions in which adolescents served sentences. It urged Paraguay to undertake efforts to implement a policy on juvenile justice and to ensure that all children victims (e.g. of abuse, domestic violence, sexual and economic exploitation, abduction, trafficking, or witnesses of such crimes) have effective access to justice and are provided with protection. 41. CRC was highly concerned by allegations contained in the report of the Truth and Justice Commission, published in 2008, of torture and arbitrary detention of children during the dictatorship, which have not yet been resolved. 42. CRC expressed concern at the low legal minimum age for contracting marriage, which is 16 years, but which can, in certain cases, be lowered to 14.86 It recommended that the minimum age for marriage be set at 18.87 CEDAW made a similar recommendation. 43. CRC was concerned at the underreporting of a large amount of births and difficulties of accessing services for registering indigenous children and children living in rural areas. CRC recommended that Paraguay ensure that unregistered children are not deprived of their rights, notably to health and education. In 2005, HR Committee made a similar recommendation. 44. CRC welcomed the various initiatives undertaken by the State regarding adoption which are aimed at restricting international adoption in response to widespread trafficking and sale of children, but remained concerned that families wishing to adopt could select a child and take him/her home, even before the child is eligible for adoption, and without an evaluation of the family. 51. CESCR remarked that the wages paid to domestic workers represented only 40 per cent of the minimum wage. It recommended amending the articles of the Labour Code that establish discriminatory conditions for domestic work, as well as increasing the number of labour inspections. CEDAW was concerned about the high number of girls performing domestic work without remuneration. 57. UNFPA indicated that, despite efforts to improve health-care coverage and quality, deficiencies persisted. In 2004, the maternal mortality ratio was 157 deaths per 100,000 live births. Risks were high for contracting sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, especially in border areas and penitentiaries, among commercial sex workers, and among children and adolescents living or working on the streets. CRC recommended measures to reduce the spread of HIV infection, particularly with regard to young people. 58. In 2005, CEDAW recommended a national consultation with civil society groups, including women's groups, to address the issue of abortion, which was illegal and a cause of high mortality rates. CRC made a similar recommendation. 60. CESCR noted that the expansion of soybean cultivation had fostered the indiscriminate use of toxic agro-chemicals, leading to deaths and illnesses, water contamination and the disappearance of ecosystems.114 CRC expressed a similar concern. 62. CRC recommended that Paraguay guarantee the delivery of drinking water and proper sanitation services for the population, particularly children in rural areas. 63. A 2010 United Nations Statistical Division source indicated that in 2007, the total net enrolment ratio in primary education was 90.7 per cent. 64. Following a visit in April 2009, the Special Rapporteur on the right to education concluded that free education was not yet a given in Paraguay and that a sizeable share of the State's obligations had shifted to families. He noted with concern the high repetition rate in basic education (30 per cent), low completion rate in secondary schools (27 per cent) and that rural dwellers and the indigenous communities had fallen into neglect in nearly all aspects of development. The Special Rapporteur found it regrettable that the illiteracy rate among indigenous people aged over 15 stood at 40 per cent. 65. The PFII noted that official figures continued to reveal an alarming situation marked by a high illiteracy rate affecting 40 per cent of the indigenous population, an average of three years' schooling for indigenous children aged 10 and over, as compared to 8 years for the non-indigenous population. The problem was more acute in rural areas. 66. In 2008, the ILO Committee of Experts was deeply concerned by the high school drop-out rate and pointed that poverty was one of the primary causes of child labour. It requested redoubled efforts to improve the functioning of the education system. 72. CRC regretted that no special procedures had been established to deal with unaccompanied minor asylum-seekers128 and recommended that Paraguay ensure that asylum claims submitted by children take into account the UNHCR Guidelines on determining the best interests of the child. 73. The Special Rapporteur on the right to education was informed of an increasing influx of labourers and their families from a neighbouring country for the soya harvest. Their children lacked adequate access to education, partly because they lived in remote areas, and partly because they did not understand or speak Spanish. 74. In 2009, the Special Rapporteur on the right to education learnt about the National Programme on Equal Opportunities for Women in Education (PRIOME) which was launched in 1995. With NGO help, the programme aimed at establishing national coordination and advice on gender for the Ministry of Education, incorporating the gender perspective in teacher training, assisting in the analysis and reform of the curriculum, and raising public awareness of the need to eliminate discrimination in education. The Special Rapporteur noted that PRIOME had been instrumental in the advances made in gender issues thanks to its treatment of areas such as gender roles and equal treatment in family structures and tasks, sex education, promotion of health and rights, including sexual and reproductive health, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV, violence and respect for cultural and religious diversity. Despite these efforts, sexism had not disappeared from the hidden curriculum, which showed that girls' and women's rights have still not found a place in teachers' thinking or behaviour. 77. CRC recommended that Paraguay seek technical assistance from the UN system and other partners for the development of rehabilitation and reintegration programmes for child labourers; juvenile justice; and HIV/AIDS. 3. The Ombudsman's Office (DP) recommends that the National Secretariat for Children and Adolescents be strengthened, to promote, for example, its work on programmes for street children all over the country. The Ombudsman's Office recommends drawing on technical assistance to improve temporary and permanent shelters for orphans. 6. The Ombudsman's Office points out that, while the National Secretariat for Children and Adolescents does have a policy in place, one of the challenges it faces is to find ways to help street children all over the country. Another is to implement the national system for the protection of children's rights, as provided for in the Code on Children and Adolescents. 22. The Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children (GIEACPC) notes that corporal punishment is lawful in the home. Provisions against violence and abuse in the Constitution (1992), the Code on Children and Adolescents (2001), the Criminal Code (1998) and the Domestic Violence Act (2000) are not interpreted as prohibiting all corporal punishment in child-rearing. GIEACPC also indicates that there is no explicit prohibition of corporal punishment in schools. A number of laws protect students' dignity, including the Code on Children and Adolescents (arts. 21, 22 and 114) and the General Education Act (1998) (art. 125), but there is no prohibition of all corporal punishment. While corporal punishment is unlawful in the penal system, it is not explicitly prohibited in alternative care settings. GIEACPC hopes the review will highlight the importance of prohibiting all corporal punishment of children in all settings, including the home, and urges the Government to enact legislation to achieve this as a matter of priority. 29. Defensa de Niños y Niñas Internacional (DNI) and the Paraguayan Institute of Human Rights (IPDH) claim that, although Paraguay has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and adapted its legislation to reflect the doctrine of comprehensive protection, practices that take a rights-based approach to juvenile criminal justice have not yet been institutionalized. DNI-IPDH points out that there are gaps in the judicial system's application of the Code on Children and Adolescents, especially as regards non-custodial social and educational measures for youngsters in conflict with the law. There are no youth courts in some parts of the country, and the few that do exist have no teams of technical advisers, not to mention that there is a shortage of defence lawyers and prosecutors. DNI-IPDH also highlights the lack of a government policy on youngsters in conflict with the law. The Ombudsman's Office says there is a need to bring the Code on Children and Adolescents into line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child with regard to the entire criminal proceedings for young offenders. 42. Saraki highlights the following challenges: set up the necessary dialogue to ensure that the heads of primary and secondary schools take responsibility for bringing children with disabilities into mainstream education; train teachers to teach persons with disabilities; and oblige universities and further education establishments by law to comply with accessibility criteria and to include issues related to disabilities and inclusion in their curricula. Accepted and Rejected Recommendations The following recommendations were accepted: A - 84.3. Continue its efforts in order to strengthen legislation to prevent and punish the use of boys and girls in pornography (Argentina) A - 84.5. Take additional efforts on children's issues, including the compilation of statistical data, establishment of a monitoring system and overall enhancement of child protection measures (Japan) A - 84.6. Ensure, within the mandate of the Department for the Rights of Children and Adolescents of the Ombudsman, that children's rights complaints mechanisms are easily accessible and child- sensitive (Slovakia) A - 84.7. Strengthen the national system of protection and promotion of childhood and adolescence (Peru) A - 84.11. Make the National Plan for the Prevention and Eradication of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children operational by ensuring public funding (Poland) A - 84.14. Strengthen the protection of rights and interests of women and children and other vulnerable groups (China) A - 84.28. Continue its efforts to prevent and combat trafficking in persons, especially women and children, by entirely financing and implementing the National Plan for the Prevention and Eradication of the Sexual Exploitation of Girls, Boys and Adolescents. Amend the national legislation on the sexual exploitation and trafficking in children to bring it in line with the international instruments (Republic of Moldova) A - 84.29. Increase attention to the protection of trafficked women and children (Holy See) A - 84.30. Strengthen efforts aimed at combating trafficking in persons and sexual exploitation of women and children and the problem of street children (Malaysia) A - 84.31. Strengthen the implementation of relevant policies, such as the Plan to Prevent and Eradicate Child Labour and the empowerment of its National Commission for the Elimination of Child Labour, in particular with regard to the ILO Convention No. 182 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, to address the phenomenon of child labour (Slovakia) A - 84.32. Redouble its efforts to eradicate child labour, and accord all possible protection and assistance to children living or working in the streets (Republic of Korea) A - 85.6. Ensure the full incorporation of CRC into its domestic legislation (Slovakia) A - 85.9. Fully implement the National System for Comprehensive Protection and Advancement of Children and Adolescents to help protect vulnerable children and adolescents (Canada) A - 85.10. Strengthen the role of the National Council for Childhood and Adolescence (Poland) A - 85.34. Ensure that the complaints mechanisms of the Ombudsman are easily accessible to all in need, including children (Slovenia) A - 85.35. Ensure the effective exercise of the right to conscientious objection and ensure that no minor (under 18) is recruited into the Armed Forces (Slovenia) A - 85.36. Implement effectively the legislation prohibiting the forced military recruitment of children under the age of 18 (Ghana) A - 85.37. Comply with the legislation prohibiting the forced military recruitment of children (Hungary) A - 85.38. Put in place measures to effectively prevent underage military recruitment (Japan) A - 85.46. Develop official statistics that record cases of domestic violence, femicide, abuse, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation, the latter especially of children and adolescents, and facilitate access to justice for victims and the prosecution of the perpetrators (Uruguay) A - 85.47. Bring domestic legislation on sexual exploitation and trafficking of minors in line with international standards (Slovenia) A - 85.48. Ensure that children living or working in the street be provided with adequate protection, assistance, nutrition and shelter as well as with health care and educational opportunities (Poland) A - 85.49. Implement the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, particularly with regard to street children and child labour (France) A - 85.50. Ensure that children living and working on the street are provided with adequate protection, assistance, health care, education and shelter (Hungary) A - 85.54. Pass legislation to ensure that unregistered children are not deprived of their rights, and that concrete steps be taken to decrease current obstacles to child registration (Canada) A - 85.60. Step up its efforts in providing equal opportunities to education and work to both vulnerable groups and minorities (Thailand) A - 85.61. Accord special attention, within its public policy on teaching, to the education of indigenous persons and children living in poverty (Costa Rica) No recommendations are pending. No recommendations were rejected.
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