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E/C.12/PRY/CO/4 each Covenant right, disaggregated by age, sex, ethnic origin, urban/rural population and other relevant status, on an annual comparative basis. 33. The Committee requests the State party to disseminate the present concluding observations widely at all levels of society, in particular among indigenous peoples, public servants, judicial authorities, lawmakers, lawyers and civil society organizations, and to inform the Committee in its next periodic report on the steps taken to implement them. It also encourages the State party to engage civil society organizations in the discussions to be held at the national level prior to the submission of its next periodic report. 34. The Committee encourages the State party to ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 35. The Committee invites the State party to update its core document in accordance with the consolidated guidelines on the form and content of reports to be submitted by States parties to the international human rights treaties (HRI/GEN/2/Rev.6, chap. I). 36. The Committee requests the State party to submit its fifth periodic report in accordance with the guidelines adopted by the Committee in 2008 (E/C.12/2008/2) by 30 March 2020 at the latest. 10 GE.15-04384E

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Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Paraguay

Concluding Observations

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Paraguay

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 water and sanitation
Right to work
Rights of indigenous peoples
Rights of migrants/non-citizens
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
Resource generation
Transparency

International Human Rights Body

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Date: Mar 20, 2015

Summary: In their Concluding Observations of Paraguay, the CESCR provides recommendations to the State party to take measures to combat poverty, and to promote gender equality, nondiscrimination, and the range of ESCR, including rights to work, housing and health, and to allocate sufficient budgetary resources to realize these rights. On resources, the Committee recommends that the State party take the measures needed to ensure that its tax policy is socially just, with a view to improving tax collection and thus increasing the availability of resources for the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights. The Committee also recommends that the State party take the necessary steps to ensure effective and transparent application of the income tax.

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