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Continue to provide integrated services to all refugee communities living in the country

Adopt national legislation protecting children from statelessness and ratify the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

Continue to implement its refugee policy, aimed at empowering refugees, and grant a wide range of socioeconomic rights, aimed at making refugees self-reliant

Strengthen efforts to ensure the participation of women, children, persons with disabilities and local communities when developing and implementing climate change and disaster risk reduction frameworks

Ensure adequate support and resources to the National Council for Persons with Disabilities to enable the institution to fulfil its mandate effectively

Work on public awareness-raising campaigns on the rights of people with disabilities and combat stigma and discrimination

Continue its efforts to create appropriate legislative and institutional mechanisms for the vulnerable groups of women, children and persons with disabilities

Guarantee the inclusion of people with disabilities in national planning and budgeting processes

Ensure the promotion and protection of human rights, particularly for women, children and persons with disabilities

Take further measures to ensure equal opportunities for vulnerable persons, particularly children, women and persons with disabilities

Continue efforts to strengthen the justice system, including juvenile justice, and take measures to reduce prison overcrowding

Take measures to strengthen social services for vulnerable children and families, in the context of child labour, sexual exploitation, teenage pregnancy and violence against children

Strengthen the efforts to ensure the effective elimination of child labour, especially in hazardous work

Implement existing legislation protecting children against exploitation, even under the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, including ensuring access to education for all children, protection against sexual harassment, protection from all forms of violence and protection against child labour

Increase dramatically public expenditure for education and reduce the share of child labor

Allocate resources for child protection and the elimination of child labour, with special attention placed on refugee children

Strengthen social safety nets to reduce the number of children forced to live and work on the streets

Strengthen its efforts to ensure the effective elimination of child labour, especially in hazardous work

Strengthen efforts to eliminate child labour, especially in hazardous work

Prioritize financial and human resources towards the registration of births to enable effective planning and the protection of children’s rights

Strengthen funding mechanisms to support the registration of all children and support registration structures at the local government level

Increase national investment in children for early childhood development, especially for the first 1,000 days of life

Build schools closer to indigenous communities in order to eliminate barriers for children travelling long distances to access education

Continue to intensify efforts to combat infant mortality

Continue to take steps to increase the representation of women in political and public offices

Ensure the effective application of the law relating to the fight against female genital mutilation

Advance the elimination of all harmful traditional practices and stereotypes, including female genital mutilation, applying the relevant laws governing sexual and gender-based violence

Intensify awareness campaigns to address the socioeconomic and cultural factors behind female genital mutilation

Continue efforts to eradicate harmful practices, in particular female genital mutilation, forced and early marriage and child labour

Implement the law that prohibits female genital mutilation and increases financing programmes against gender-based violence and domestic violence