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54.
The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to improve
school enrolment and retention rates of Roma children and their academic
performance, including by providing mentoring and tutoring services and other
special assistance measures for Roma children. It also recommends that the State
party take all measures necessary to address the overrepresentation of Roma children
in special schools and special classes in mainstream schools, including a review of the
classification criteria and the adoption of inclusive and integrated education
programmes.
D.
Other recommendations
55.
The Committee encourages the State party to ratify the Optional Protocol to
the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
56.
The Committee encourages the State party to consider ratifying the
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of Their Families and the International Convention for the Protection of All
Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
57.
The Committee recommends that the State party take steps to progressively
develop and apply appropriate indicators on the implementation of economic, social
and cultural rights in order to facilitate the assessment of progress achieved by the
State party in complying with its obligations under the Covenant for various segments
of the population. In this context, the Committee refers the State party to, inter alia,
the conceptual and methodological framework on human rights indicators developed
by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights
(HRI/MC/2008/3).
58.
The Committee requests the State party to include in its next periodic report
comparative annual statistics on the realization of each of the rights enshrined in the
Covenant, disaggregated by age, sex, ethnic origin, urban and rural population and
other relevant criteria. It also requests detailed information on the evolution of the
State party’s revenues, disaggregated by source, and of the budgets allocated in the
areas relating to the Covenant rights.
59.
The Committee requests the State party to disseminate the present concluding
observations widely among all levels of society at national, municipal and territorial
levels, particularly among parliamentarians, public officials and judicial authorities,
and to inform the Committee, in its next periodic report, about the steps taken to
implement the recommendations contained herein. The Committee also encourages
the State party to engage non-governmental organizations and other members of civil
society in the follow-up to the present concluding observations and in the process of
consultation at the national level prior to the submission of its next periodic report.
60.
The Committee requests the State party to submit its fifth periodic report, to be
prepared in accordance with the reporting guidelines adopted by the Committee in
2008 (E/C.12/2008/2), by 30 June 2021. The Committee also invites the State party to
update its common core document in accordance with the harmonized guidelines
on reporting under the international human rights treaties (see HRI/GEN/2/Rev.6,
chap. I).
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