A/72/165 Coordination Council, a body comprising 29 members, including Roma representatives, which is tasked with, inter alia, overseeing the implementation of the framework agreement between the Government and the National Roma SelfGovernment. She also welcomes the adoption, in 2011, of a national social inclusion strategy, which highlights among its objectives in the area of health care the improvement of access to health care for Roma communities through triannual action plans. 66. With regard to the situation of Roma women, the Special Rapporteur is pleased to learn about the implementation, in 2016, of a project to support cooperation for inclusion, which is intended to promote Roma women’s civil society organizations, and hopes that similar projects are replicated in the future. 67. In the field of education, Hungary provided information about several legislative and other measures implemented to combat discrimination of Roma children at school. Hungary noted a bill submitted in October 2016 to amend the Act on Equal Treatment and the Promotion of Equal Opportunities and the Act on National Public Education, in order to put in place stronger guarantees to prevent the segregation of children in education, including based on ethnicity or nationality. It also provided detailed information on the measures adopted to change the practice of labelling young Roma children as mentally disabled without justification based on the child’s intellectual capabilities and referred, among other measures, to the safeguards in place in this regard, including pedagogical assistance services. 68. In the framework of the national social inclusion strategy, developments in the areas of employment, housing and health care were presented. The project entitled “Active for work 2007-2013” aims to enhance the employability of persons in disadvantaged situations in the labour market; some 47 per cent of participants are members of the Roma community. In addition to the existing settlement programmes, it was noted that in 2015 the Government adopted a policy strategy to manage segregated housing, covering the period 2014 -2020, to improve housing conditions in settlements. Several programmes were highlighted as examples of measures aimed at improving the access of Roma people to health -care services, including a Roma mother-child health programme and a programme on training Roma health guardians. H. Rwanda 69. The Special Rapporteur took note that, contrary to her predecessor’s recommendation that the Government should acknowledge the Batwa to be a distinct population group and that targeted programmes should be designed and implemented to improve their conditions, the Government does not consider any group as a distinct indigenous people. Nevertheless, Rwanda highlighted policies and programmes intended to address the socioeconomic situation of historically vulnerable groups, including the Batwa and others. The Special Rapporteur encourages Rwanda to ensure that Batwa communities benefit fully from government initiatives. 70. In relation to the recommendation of the former mandate holder that the Government should review the programme to demolish all nyakatsi houses to ensure that it did not have a negative impact on vulnerable individuals, families or communities, Rwanda stated that there had been what it termed a “bye-bye nyakatsi” campaign and that vulnerable families had been given new houses. 16/22 17-12138

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