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E/C.12/NPL/CO/3 The Committee calls on the State party to adopt legislation making primary school compulsory. It further recommends that the State party: (a) Ensure access to schooling in rural areas and for Dalit and indigenous children in the context of its “Programme of education for all 2015”; (b) Make all necessary efforts to make secondary school free; (c) Address the high rate of school dropout of girls, including by providing adequate sanitary infrastructure in all schools; (d) Step up its efforts to provide mother tongue-based multilingual education through a coherent language policy framework, especially for schools with linguistically diverse populations. Cultural rights 29. The Committee is concerned that the lack of recognition of some indigenous peoples by the State party prevents them from fully enjoying their cultural rights, which are deeply rooted in their ancestral lands, territories and resources (art. 15). The Committee recommends that the State party take all necessary measures to ensure that all indigenous peoples fully enjoy their cultural rights. D. Other recommendations 30. The Committee encourages the State party to consider signing and ratifying the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. 31. The Committee requests the State party to disseminate the present concluding observations widely at all levels of society, particularly among parliamentarians, public officials, judicial authorities and civil society organizations, and to inform the Committee in its next periodic report on the steps taken to implement them. 32. The Committee invites the State party to submit its common core document in accordance with the harmonized guidelines on reporting approved by the human rights treaty bodies (HRI/GEN/2/Rev.6). 33. The Committee encourages the State party to continue to engage with civil society organizations in constructive cooperation for the preparation and submission of its next periodic report. 34. The Committee requests the State party to submit its fourth periodic report in accordance with the guidelines adopted by the Committee in 2008 (E/C.12/2008/2), by 30 November 2019. 11

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Nepal

Rights Involved

Right to adequate housing
Right to education
Right to equality and a fair trial
Right to food
Right to health
Right to social security
Right to work
Rights of indigenous peoples
Rights of migrants/non-citizens
Rights of older persons
Rights of persons with disabilities
Rights of the child
Rights of women and girls

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Accountability
Non-discrimination
Progressive realization
Transparency

International Human Rights Body

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Date: Dec 12, 2014

Summary: In their Concluding Observations of Nepal, the CESCR provides recommendations to the State party to take measures to combat corruption, address poverty, and promote nondiscrimination particularly on the basis of caste, gender equality, the rights of children, and the range of ESCR. On resources, the Committee is concerned that corruption negatively impacts the use of available resources to their maximum for the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights. The Committee recommends the State party provide sufficient budget allocations toward these ends.

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