28. The Committee urges the State party to take the necessary measures, including legislative measures, to: (a) prevent the eviction
of peasant and indigenous families who are occupying the land; (b) address the claims made by peasant and indigenous families and
ensure that they are not repressed; (c) follow up on complaints filed with the Office of the Public Prosecutor; (d) ensure that the
judicial authorities take the provisions of the Covenant into account when handing down their decisions; and (e) investigate, bring to
trial and punish those responsible for forced evictions and violations related to the rights recognized by the Covenant.
29. The Committee urges the State party to take all the necessary measures to guarantee that indigenous people hold legal title to
their indigenous lands.
30. The Committee urges the State party, in accordance with its general comment No. 4, on the right to adequate housing, to take
all appropriate measures, including the construction of housing units, to solve the problem of the housing shortage affecting mainly
rural areas, low income families and other marginalized persons and groups.The Committee requests the State party, in its next
report, to provide detailed and updated information, including disaggregated statistical data and indicators, in order to assess the level
of progress achieved in that area.
31. The Committee recommends that the State party adopt effective and urgent measures to combat hunger and malnutrition. The
State party should amend its public agricultural and agrarian policies in order to promote agriculture among peasant families and food
security. It should allocate the maximum amount of resources available for financial and technical support to small and medium sized
producers.
32. The Committee strongly encourages the State party to take the necessary legislative steps to address the problem of female
mortality caused by clandestine abortions, and recommends that school curricula openly address the subjects of sex education and
family planning in order to help prevent early pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. It also recommends that it
adopt a law on sexual and reproductive health that is compatible with the provisions of the Covenant. The State party should also
continue its efforts to reduce maternal and infant mortality.
33. The Committee encourages the State party to continue its efforts to improve the situation of persons undergoing treatment in
psychiatric institutions, and to speed up progress in the implementation of the commitment deed signed in 2004 and, especially,
guarantee access to judicial remedy for persons committed to such institutions. The Committeealso recommends that the State party
adopt in the near future a bill on mental health that is fully compatible with the Covenant.
34. The Committee recommends that the State party give due consideration in its land restitution programme to the right of
indigenous peoples to their ancestral lands, which are essential to the expression of their cultural identity and to their very survival.
35. The Committee recommends that, in its next periodic report, the State party provide more detailed analysis of the cases
examined and the results of activities undertaken by the Ombudsman.
36. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen the mandate of the Human Rights Commission, including through
the provision of adequate funding, and allow it to participate, at the national level, in activities to follow up on the concluding
observations.
37. The Committee requests the State party to disseminate widely the present concluding observations at all levels of society and,
in particular, among State officials, the judiciary and civil society organizations in general, and to inform the Committee in its next
periodic report about all 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 discussion at the national level prior to the submission of its next periodic report.
38. The Committee invites the State party to update its core document in accordance with the requirements of the harmonized
guidelines on reporting compiled in 2006 (HRI/GEN/2/Rev.4).
39.
The Committee requests the State party to submit its fourth periodic report as a single document not later than 30 June 2011.