A/HRC/55/51/Add.2 mechanism for responses and follow-up to communications and other international human rights reporting mechanisms. 83. The Special Rapporteur calls upon the Government of Tajikistan: (a) To re-examine the relevant legislation (the Law on regulating traditions, celebrations and rituals, the Law on public associations, the Law on freedom of conscience and religious associations, the Law on parental responsibility, the Law on countering extremism of 2020 and the Law on combating terrorism of 2021) to ensure that it fully complies with the treaty obligations of Tajikistan, particularly in relation to the human rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, as outlined in the present report; (b) To immediately conduct a review of the Action Plan 2023–2025 and incorporate into it a section on the actions to be taken in relation to the Mugat minority to address the widespread discrimination and denial of equality that they encounter daily in education, housing and public health, among other services, in order to comply with its human rights obligations and the calls of international bodies. The section should include a specific plan to look into access to public services for the Mugat community, including with regard to power, sewage treatment facilities and water and schooling, housing and health care, and should also include a multi-year investment plan aimed at enabling members of the Mugat community to achieve real and effective equality commensurate with that of their neighbours. It should pay particular attention to the serious underfunding of their schools and adopt a policy that does not segregate Mugat children from other children on the basis of race or ethnicity; (c) To undertake an impartial and transparent investigation into the events in the Kŭhistoni Badakhshon Autonomous Province since November 2021, in accordance with applicable international standards; (d) To engage in a constructive and open dialogue with the Pamiri minority to address their grievances; (e) To implement conflict-prevention measures that meet international human rights standards, including measures to protect the Pamiri minority; (f) To take verifiable and impartial steps towards establishing accountability for the perpetrators of reported abuses, such as torture and extrajudicial killings, and to provide remedies to the victims; (g) To put in place an affirmative action programme to increase the proportion of minorities employed in the national and local civil service, particularly for the Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Pamiri minorities, so that they better reflect the diversity and makeup of Tajik society; (h) To adopt minority rights legislation that would, inter alia, provide for the use of minority languages in localities in which those minorities are concentrated and for civil servants to be hired to provide public services in the languages of the populations involved, in line with the guidance provided in the Language Rights of Linguistic Minorities: A Practical Guide for Implementation and The Hague Recommendations Regarding the Education Rights of National Minorities. 84. The Government of Tajikistan should, among other measures: (a) Ratify the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and obtain technical assistance from the United Nations in that regard. In line with similar good practices in other countries, the Government should provide for the National Testing Centre to offer entrance exams for the public service in the languages of education of the linguistic minorities in the country; (b) Establish for users of sign language a firm timetable and plan of action for the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as soon as possible, formally recognize sign language as a language for the purposes of education and adopt a more comprehensive approach in policy documents for its use in the GE.24-00946 17