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47.
The Committee, while noting the sustained efforts made to address HIV/AIDS problems,
urges the State party to step up its measures to combat HIV/AIDS and, in particular, to enhance
the provision of education on sexual and reproductive health.
48.
The Committee recommends that the State party, in its next periodic report, provide more
detailed statistics on a disaggregated and comparative basis concerning specific health
programmes devoted to reducing and preventing infant mortality and maternal mortality, as well
as teenage pregnancies and back-street abortions. The State party is invited to set benchmarks in
this area which might form the basis of the dialogue with the Committee during the next periodic
review.
49.
The Committee urges the State party to enact specific legislation and adopt measures
necessary to improve the living conditions of prisoners and detainees.
50.
The Committee urges the State party to integrate economic, social and cultural rights into
its poverty reduction programmes. In this regard, the State party is urged to give the most
careful attention to the Committee’s Statement on poverty and human rights of 4 May 2001
(E/C.12/2001/10).
51.
The Committee urges the State party to devise a housing strategy for disadvantaged and
marginalized groups and to provide low-cost housing units to them. The Committee also urges
the State party to provide more disaggregated data on squatters, as well as to adopt measures to
improve their legal position with regard to their security of tenure. In addition, the Committee
recommends that the State party take into account the Committee’s General Comments 4 and 7
on the right to adequate housing and on forced evictions.
52.
The Committee calls on the State party to prohibit effectively the use of corporal
punishment in all areas of life.
53.
The Committee calls upon the State party to exercise the full authority of the law and all
means at its command to eradicate the scourge of violence. The Committee reminds the State
party that, in undertaking measures to combat violence, it must ensure respect for human dignity
and the protection of human rights at all times. The Committee requests the State party to
provide in its third periodic report detailed information on the measures it has taken and the
progress it has achieved in its efforts to eradicate all forms of violence, particularly violence
against women and children and excessive force used by the police.
54.
The Committee recommends that the State party provide in its next periodic report, on
a disaggregated and comparative year-by-year basis, facts and figures on access to basic
health-care facilities, goods and services, and similar figures about the development of a private
health-care system, including on the effects of this on continued access to health facilities by the
disadvantaged and marginalized groups of society.
55.
The Committee encourages the State party to continue to provide human rights education
in schools at all levels and to raise awareness about human rights, in particular economic, social
and cultural rights, among State officials and the judiciary.