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138.274 Allocate adequate resources to programmes promoting indigenous
well-being and addressing discrimination and abuse of indigenous peoples in the
health-care and education systems (Canada);
138.275 Effectively implement the white paper on indigenous rights and ensure
free, prior and informed consent in the process (Denmark);
138.276 Make efforts to improve the status and the rights of indigenous peoples
and to adopt the white paper drafted by the Office of the Ombudsman (Estonia);
138.277 Continue and intensify efforts to enrol indigenous and rural children
through the mobile school unit programme (Fiji);
138.278 Continue to enhance the projects and programmes aimed at ensuring
the protection and rights of indigenous communities (Ghana);
138.279 Recognize formally the rights of indigenous communities in the
Constitution so as to ensure that their specific needs are safeguarded,
particularly on the issue of land expropriation, which should be addressed
comprehensively (Marshall Islands);
138.280 Ensure that the legally guaranteed rights of ethnic minorities are also
de facto guaranteed, especially by undertaking all efforts to reduce the dropout
rate of schoolchildren belonging to ethnic minorities and to stop discrimination
against ethnic minorities in the labour market (Austria);
138.281 Adopt specific legislation protecting the rights of refugees and migrant
workers and make provisions for addressing all relevant issues thereunder
(Sierra Leone);
138.282 Accelerate the procedures necessary for accession to the Convention
on the Reduction of Statelessness (Georgia);
138.283 Reform sections 21 (1) and 31 (1) of the Anti-Corruption Act (8 of
2003) to make the thresholds for investigation and criminal referral objective
(Australia).5
139. All conclusions and/or recommendations contained in the present report reflect
the position of the submitting States and/or the State under review. They should not be
construed as endorsed by the Working Group as a whole.
5
The recommendation made during the interactive dialogue was: “Continue efforts to eradicate
corruption, including by maximizing funding of the Anti-Corruption Commission, promoting
corruption reporting from the public and reforming sections 21 (1) and 31 (1) of the Anti-Corruption
Act of 2003 to make the thresholds for investigation and criminal referral objective”.
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