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Continue community-based efforts to ensure the realization of the rights of women in accordance with the national laws

Continue to strengthen frameworks to prevent child trafficking and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice

Increase cooperation with countries of origin of migrant workers, in order to ensure the protection of their rights

Strengthen and develop the role of specialized national mechanisms to promote and protect human rights

Ensure implementation of a human rights approach in the offshore processing of migrants and asylum seekers

Continue the good practice of consulting with indigenous peoples during policy formulation, in order to further protect their rights and build an inclusive society

Establish additional measures to ensure more representation of women in decision-making positions, including in the public service

Establish and implement stronger community-based measures to protect persons with albinism

Expand the coverage of the Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Unit of the Ministry of Justice to cover the entire country and adopt community-based measures to fight all forms of gender-based violence

Continue implementing measures aimed at eliminating discrimination against and the stigmatization of Ebola survivors

Establish mechanisms to support and rehabilitate children caught up in armed conflict

Put in place stronger mechanisms to prevent trafficking in persons and support the victims of trafficking

Ensure that appropriate measures are taken by the police to identify and protect persons suffering from mental illness during their operations

Ensure the speedy finalization of the national processes to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Scale up measures to reduce the prevalence of gender-based violence

Finalize the process of establishing a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles

Strengthen measures to end torture and ill-treatment in all places of detention

Enhance efforts to eliminate discrimination and to foster access to education for vulnerable groups

Continue the mine clearance programmes and programmes of mine awareness in rural areas in cooperation with appropriate international agencies

Guarantee access for all victims of trafficking in persons to legal, psychological, medical and social assistance and to shelters and reparation, regardless of their status

Adopt comprehensive legislation, coupled with the relevant policies and programmes, to combat all forms of racial discrimination

Enhance efforts to establish an independent national human rights institution in line with the Paris Principle

Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

Enhance efforts to ensure full eradication of child marriages in certain parts of the country

Develop programmes and policies for the prevention, recovery and social reintegration of child victims, including child brides, in accordance with the documents adopted at the World Congresses against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

Intensify efforts to eradicate harmful practices against women and child marriage through grass-roots sensitization and enforcement of relevant legislation such as the Children’s Act and the Domestic Violence Act

Prioritize completion of the constitutional review process, taking into account the need for inclusive consultations

Complete the process of ratification of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

Finalize the review of the necessary legislation and complete the drafting and adoption of the Child Protection Code