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Maintain their efforts in promoting and protecting human rights and pursue the ongoing high-level negotiations with the two neighbouring countries to identify solutions to resolve illegal migration

Strengthen the civil registration mechanisms and ensure that every child is registered immediately after birth

Maintain the efforts towards gender equality in education

Remove all additional costs to facilitate the school attendance of all children

Ensure that primary schools are accessible and free for all students

Carry on its efforts towards expanding the common space among all segments of society, as well as their harmonious coexistence and integration, on the basis of rule of law

Continue to step up efforts to provide equal opportunities in education, especially to ethnic minorities and vulnerable groups including migrants, Roma and children with disabilities

Continue and improve the good practice of using languages other than Latvian in information campaigns on issues of public health when necessary, such as the promotion of vaccination against COVID-19

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Consider steps to increase public resilience against intolerance and discrimination based on racial, national, ethnic and religious origin as well as hate speech in public life and on the Internet

Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Speed up the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Consider accession to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and take further steps to ensure the full socioeconomic integration of migrants

Finalize Neckartal Dam construction with supplementary irrigation projects for safe and clean water for use by citizens and for the needs of small- scale farmers, and finalize other government projects

Continue expanding access to food and educational opportunities for all children, particularly those from food-insecure households

Give top priority to tackling the shortage of affordable housing with access to water, electricity and sanitation

Improve women’s access to the formal labour market and ensure that all women are covered by a social protection scheme

Continue to provide basic social services to the majority of its citizens and to increase the school enrolment rate for children, particularly for young girls, as much as possible

Take necessary measures to ensure that the medical examinations of asylum seekers at the reception centres are performed by independent institutions

Include torture as a separate offence in its Criminal Code

Strengthen the communication between the national police and the Muslim community

Prepare an action plan against Islamophia

Enact comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation complying with its international obligations that will promote tolerance as well as better integration of minorities and immigrants to Danish society

Reconsider its decision about not to sign the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrants Workers and Members of Their Families

Further strengthen the protection of children affected by armed conflict

Establish a comprehensive strategy to address the growing tendency in racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia

Take the steps necessary for the development of a national strategy against racial discrimination, xenophobia and Islamophobia with a view to facilitating the protection of the human rights of migrants and refugees

Continue capacity-building efforts for training of security forces with the aim of providing a broad perspective on human rights norms

Empower the institutional capacity of the judiciary

Raise awareness, in particular, against racial profiling by law enforcement bodies and maintain police training in order to address the issues of excessive use of force