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D.
Other recommendations
60.
The Committee encourages the State party to consider ratifying the Optional
Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
61.
The Committee recommends that the State party 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.
62.
The Committee recommends that the State party take fully into account its
obligations under the Covenant and ensure the full enjoyment of the rights enshrined
therein in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the
national level, with international assistance and cooperation when needed.
Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals would be significantly facilitated
by the State party establishing independent mechanisms to monitor progress and
treating beneficiaries of public programmes as rights holders who can claim
entitlements. Implementing the Goals on the basis of the principles of participation,
accountability and non-discrimination would ensure that no one is left behind.
63.
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 that 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 for Human Rights (see
HRI/MC/2008/3).
64.
The Committee requests that the State party disseminate the present
concluding observations widely at all levels of society, including at the federal,
regional and territory levels, particularly among parliamentarians, public officials
and judicial authorities, and that it inform the Committee in its next periodic report
about the steps taken to implement them. The Committee encourages the State party
to engage with 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.
65.
In accordance with the procedure on follow-up to concluding observations
adopted by the Committee, the State party is requested to provide, within 18 months
of the adoption of the present concluding observations, information on the
implementation of the recommendations made by the Committee in paragraphs 8 (on
civil society organizations), 15 (a) (on indigenous peoples’ land rights) and 51 (d) (on
health care for drug users), above.
66.
The Committee requests the State party to submit its seventh periodic report,
to be prepared in accordance with the reporting guidelines adopted by the Committee
in 2008 (E/C.12/2008/2), by 31 October 2022.
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