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access to schools and their facilities, and the allocation of sufficient financial
resources.
Cultural rights
30.
The Committee is concerned about the inadequate implementation of the National
Policy for Arts and Culture (2011), mainly owing to the limited allocation of resources. It is
also concerned that efforts to preserve the cultural heritage of the State party are not
sufficient despite the fact that measures have been taken to address the issue (art. 15).
The Committee recommends that the State party allocate the resources necessary for
the effective implementation of the National Policy for Arts and Culture. It is also
requested to step up its efforts and increase its investment in preserving the cultural
heritage, including by monitoring and ensuring the strict implementation of the Law
on Protection of Cultural Heritage (2014).
D.
Other recommendations
31.
The Committee recommends that the State party ratify the International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of
Their Families and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
on a communications procedure.
32.
The Committee recommends that the State party step up its efforts in raising
the awareness of the members of the judiciary, the lawyers and the rights holders, of
the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its Optional
Protocol, as well as the justiciability of those rights. The Committee draws the State
party’s attention to its general comment No. 9 (1998) on the domestic application of
the Covenant.
33.
The Committee requests the State party to translate the present concluding
observations into Mongolian and to disseminate them widely at all levels of society,
particularly among parliamentarians, public officials, judicial authorities and rights
holders, and to inform the Committee in its next periodic report on the steps taken to
implement them. It also encourages the State party to engage non-governmental
organizations and other members of civil society in the process of implementing the
present concluding observations, prior to the submission of its next periodic report.
34.
The Committee requests the State party to submit its fifth periodic report by
30 June 2020, and invites the State party to update its common core document, as
required, in accordance with the harmonized guidelines on reporting under the
international human rights treaties (HRI/GEN/2/Rev.6, chap. I).
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