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installations, as it could lead to a risk of indoctrination and might be incompatible with the
principles set forth in article 13 (1) of the Covenant (art. 13).
56.
The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a)
Redouble its efforts to achieve universality of free primary education
and to increase access to preschool education;
(b)
Take appropriate measures to bring down the school dropout rate, in
particular among disadvantaged and marginalized groups;
(c)
Take all necessary measures to improve the quality of teaching,
including by allocating sufficient resources, increasing the number and remuneration
of qualified teachers and improving teaching materials and infrastructure;
(d)
Take the necessary steps to ensure that formal education and any other
type of learning activities for children and adolescents are imparted by entities
specializing in children’s education, rights and needs, and make sure that all forms of
education and training foster active participation in a free society that promotes
understanding, tolerance and friendship among nations as well as respect for human
rights and fundamental freedoms.
D.
Other recommendations
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 connection, the Committee refers the State party to the
conceptual and methodological framework for human rights indicators prepared by
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
(HRI/MC/2008/3).
58.
The Committee encourages the State party to ratify the Optional Protocol to
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and
the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a
communications procedure.
59.
The Committee requests the State party to disseminate the present concluding
observations broadly among all sectors of Honduran society, in particular among
indigenous peoples and Hondurans of African descent, public officials, judicial
authorities, legislators, lawyers and civil society organizations, and to inform the
Committee, in its next periodic report, on the measures taken to implement the
recommendations made herein. The Committee also encourages the State party to
include civil society organizations in the national-level discussions to be held prior to
the submission of the next report.
60.
The Committee requests the State party to submit its third periodic report,
prepared in conformity with the reporting guidelines adopted by the Committee in
2008 (E/C.12/2008/2), not later than 30 June 2021 and invites it to submit its common
core document 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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