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Eliminate any practical obstacle to the birth registration of all children born to foreign parents

Avoid the mass expulsion of migrants and the use of force and ensure that repatriation is carried out with full respect for the human rights of the affected migrants

Consider establishing a national strategy for migration that promotes the regularization of migrants and guarantees the rights of people in a situation of mobility

Accelerate the implementation of the law on asylum and refugee status adopted in 2015, especially by putting in place fair and efficient asylum procedures in order to facilitate access by asylum seekers and refugees to basic social services

Ensure the implementation of the law on the right to asylum and refugee status, put in place fair and effective asylum procedures and swiftly issue and renew identification documents for asylum seekers and refugees

Ensure that asylum seekers and refugees are detained only as a last resort and that those detained in reception centres are provided with legal safeguards

Continue on its path towards sustaining tailored assistance to minors with disabilities, as reflected in the intervention strategy for the social inclusion of children with disabilities

Ensure that children with disabilities have access to health care, social assistance and inclusive education, and intensify measures to address prejudice against such children

Strengthen initiatives to recognize the ownership and use of land by minority communities and indigenous peoples, including the San people and the south-western pastoral communities

Strengthen legislative and administrative measures to guarantee the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples, and seek the consent of indigenous peoples before carrying out development projects or granting licences to companies to carry out economic activities in indigenous territories

Adopt legislation and measures to recognize the status of indigenous peoples

Explicitly criminalize the recruitment and use of children under the age of 18 into armed conflict and by non-State armed groups

Continue its ongoing measures to combat accusations of witchcraft against children and protect minors from persons who accuse them

Take further measures to prevent all forms of violence and abuse against children, including by fighting against child, early and forced marriages, ending child labour and protecting children accused of witchcraft

Intensify its action to combat violence against women and children, including those accused of witchcraft, by allocating adequate resources to victim support structures and guaranteeing victims access to justice and the right to reparation

Finalize the adoption of the 2018–2022 national action plan for the eradication of child labour, which aims at creating prevention strategies, identifying areas where child labour exists and identifying forms of labour that constitute child labour

Intensify efforts to put in place the plan of action for the elimination of child labour, ensuring the inclusion of monitoring and accountability mechanisms

Accelerate the development of the national plan of action for the elimination of child labour in Angola for 2018–2022

Accelerate the process of adopting necessary measures to prevent forced labour and child labour

Intensify efforts aimed at reducing child labour

Continue efforts to prevent and combat all violence against children, in particular by opening new shelters and fighting traffickers and child labour

Adopt legislation to explicitly prohibit the corporal punishment of children in all settings

Enact legislation to prohibit corporal punishment for children in all settings, including the home, and repeal all legal defences for its use

Continue to deepen policies and mechanisms for the comprehensive protection of the rights of children and adolescents, particularly actions to prevent and confront all manifestations of violence

Completely eliminate child, early and forced marriage by amending the Family Code of 1988

Revise the Family Code to ensure that the minimum age of marriage is 18 years for both girls and boys

Amend article 24 of the Family Code to abolish any exceptions to 18 years as the minimum age of marriage

Take the necessary measures to eradicate traditional practices that promote child and early marriage and establish the minimum age for marriage at 18 years

Increase the minimum age for marriage to 18 years for both boys and girls without exceptions and criminalize all forms of forced and child marriage

Prohibit by law child and forced marriage and revise the Family Code so as to establish the minimum age for marriage at 18 years