E/C.12/MDA/CO/3
Cultural rights
74.
The Committee is concerned that since the 2012 amendments to the law on identity
documents, the national passport system has failed to fully recognize the names of persons
belonging to ethno-linguistic minority groups, particularly Russian minorities (art. 15).
75.
The Committee recommends that the State party take all measures necessary to
ensure that persons belonging to ethno-linguistic minority groups, particularly
Russian minorities, have their names, including patronymics, on their identity cards.
D.
Other recommendations
76.
The Committee encourages the State party to consider ratifying the Optional
Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
77.
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.
78.
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.
79.
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).
80.
The Committee requests that the State party disseminate the present
concluding observations widely at all levels of society, including at the national,
provincial and municipal levels, in particular 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 the two national human rights institutions, 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.
81.
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 contained in paragraphs 9 (a) (relating to
national human rights institutions), 59 (relating to the draft health code) and 73
(relating to the school optimization policy) above.
82.
The Committee requests the State party to submit its fourth 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. In addition, it 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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