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E/C.12/NAM/CO/1 D. Other recommendations 75. The Committee encourages the State party to ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 76. The Committee recommends that the State party ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. 77. The Committee recommends that the State party incorporate the recommendations contained herein in a future version of the National Human Rights Action Plan 2015-2019, with clear targets, timelines and resources. 78. 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 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). 79. The Committee invites the State party to seek assistance from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for the implementation of the present recommendations. 80. The Committee requests the State party to disseminate the present concluding observations widely at all levels of society, particularly among parliamentarians, public officials and the judicial authorities, and to inform the Committee in its next periodic report of the 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. 81. The Committee requests the State party to submit its second periodic report, to be prepared in accordance with the reporting guidelines adopted by the Committee in 2008 (E/C.12/2008/2), by 31 March 2021. 13

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Concluding observations on the initial report of Namibia

Concluding Observations

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Namibia

Rights Involved

Right to adequate housing
Right to adequate standard of living
Right to education
Right to food
Right to health
Right to social security
Right to take part in cultural life
Right to water and sanitation
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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Non-discrimination
Progressive realization
Resource allocation
Resource expenditure

International Human Rights Body

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Date: Mar 23, 2016

Summary: In their Concluding Observations of Namibia, the CESCR provides recommendations to the State party to take measures to address poverty, to implement human rights impact assessments, and to promote nondiscrimination, gender equality, rights to work, social security, food, housing, water and sanitation, health and education, and the rights of persons with disabilities and indigenous people, among others. The Committee recommends the State party increases the budget allocation where necessary to address these issues and promote the realization of these rights.

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