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Repeal article 73 of Law No. L/94/019/CTRN to decriminalize irregular migration and to ban the detention of children who are asylum seekers, refugees and migrants

Strengthen efforts to ensure equal opportunities for persons with disabilities and protect them from all forms of discrimination

Continue to enhance the rights of persons with disabilities

Adopt a legal framework with specific targets concerning the accessibility of services to persons with disabilities

Strengthen measures to ensure the rehabilitation, inclusion and integration of persons with disabilities, especially children, in accessing education and care services

Adopt the implementing texts of the law on the promotion and protection of the rights of people with disabilities, and put in place a national policy and a specific strategy that promotes the autonomy of persons with disabilities

Continue efforts to ensure the human rights of persons with disabilities, including rehabilitation, integration and assuring access to health- care services

Conclude the process of adopting the draft law on the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with albinism

Ensure effective implementation of the 2019 law on the promotion and protection of the rights of persons with albinism, including through public awareness campaigns on the law

Continue its actions and initiatives to strengthen activities to protect persons with albinism and persons living with HIV/AIDS

Scale up efforts to implement the national plan of action on the rights of the child

Support programmes to protect children from abuse, exploitation and violence

Strengthen the protection of children in exercising their rights, especially in dealing with hazardous materials, and against sexual exploitation

Maintain the best practice of providing compulsory education free of charge for all children

Continue to take positive measures to better protect the rights of women, children and people with disabilities

Strengthen the laws relating to, and the prevention of, child marriage

Strengthen the prevention and punishment for trafficking in human beings as well as measures to support victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation, above all children

Enact the new children’s code that would explicitly prohibit corporal punishment in all settings, including the home

Continue efforts to promote the rights of the child, in particular the rights of children without parents

Increase efforts to combat child trafficking

Guarantee free basic education and promote policies to ensure that all children, including children with albinism and children with disabilities, are included and given means to stay in schools, especially in rural areas

Promote the registration of children from birth, throughout the national territory, especially in the rural areas, and make efforts to ensure that birth certificates are issued on a free basis

Establish a specialized rehabilitation centre for minors in conflict with the law

Continue to realize the objectives of the children’s rights strategy, particularly as regards protection from abuse, violence and exploitation

Strengthen education and awareness raising campaigns among communities on the harmful consequences of female genital mutilation and other harmful traditional practices

Combat the high prevalence of female genital mutilation, including by increasing and strengthening awareness-raising campaigns about its harm to the victims and by ensuring that perpetrators are held to account

Strengthen its efforts to conduct awareness-raising campaigns on female genital mutilation and other harmful traditional practices

Step up measures to create incentive and empowerment programmes in order to achieve higher representation of women in decision-making bodies

Further strengthen its efforts to combat human trafficking and people smuggling

Continuing the ongoing efforts to develop programmes to support girls and women in higher education and scientific research