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Ratify the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169)

Ratify the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169)

Bring its criminal legislation into compliance with the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

Bring its criminal legislation into compliance with the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

Bring its criminal legislation into compliance with the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

Enhance measures to protect the rights of migrants

Continue efforts to facilitate access to education for young people with migrant backgrounds to reduce socioeconomic disparities

Continue promoting the rights and participation of the diaspora

Create a mechanism facilitating the participation of Uruguayan residents abroad in electoral and all voting processes

Continue special efforts to provide voting rights in elections for the diaspora

Adopt measures to allow Uruguayans living abroad to exercise the right to vote, as enshrined in its Constitution

Ensure the rights of citizens abroad to participate in elections

Drive the corresponding legal reforms to provide full legal capacity to persons with disabilities

Adopt additional measures to guarantee the social and family life of people affected by mental health conditions so that hospitalization is only used as a last resort

Consider modifying the 2017 Mental Health Law to include the establishment of an autonomous human rights review body on mental health and the provision of an adequate budget to enable this body to effectively carry out its mandate

Ensure access to quality mental health-care services through the allocation of greater resources and the implementation of effective measures that guarantee respect for international rights

Continue promoting the rights of persons with disabilities

Continue efforts to implement efficient policies aimed at integrating all persons with disabilities into society and their active participation in community life, and allocate sufficient resources to this end

Ensure the full implementation of the right to equality and non- discrimination for persons with disabilities

Continue its efforts to ensure that specific policies are being formulated, improved and exercised in order to protect the rights of persons with disabilities and eliminate all kinds of discrimination against them

Guarantee equal rights and opportunities for minorities in the country, including measures for their full participation in public affairs

Adopt measures for the full participation of Afro-Uruguayans at all levels of government and in decision-making positions in public and private sectors, as recommended by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Take concrete steps to accelerate progress in reaching the quota of posts in public bodies, including decision-making roles, to be allocated to people of African descent

Fully implement the National Plan on Racial Equality and African Descent in order to address structural inequalities

Take necessary measures to increase the access rate to higher education for adolescents of African descent

Continue to implement specific measures aimed at increasing the participation and inclusion of the Afrodescendent population in the country’s public policies

Strengthen efforts so that the Afro-Uruguayan population fully enjoys its economic, social and cultural rights

Adopt measures for the full and meaningful participation of Afro- Uruguayans in public affairs, both in decision-making positions and in representative institutions, at all levels of government