A/HRC/16/39 appropriate measures to establish the numbers and legal status of the Roma in the country. It also recommended that the State party should provide shelter to the Roma and Travellers in the country and afford to them full protection from discrimination, racial profiling and hate crimes, and facilitate their access to public services. The Committee recommended that the State party should strengthen its efforts to promote people from ethnic backgrounds other than Danish to serve as police officers in order to achieve a racially balanced police service. Regarding the “anti-ghettoization” law intended to prevent marginalized groupings, the Committee recommended that the State party should assess the impact that the implementation of the law had on the rights of various ethnic groups to practice their culture, and ensure that it did not have an assimilationist effect leading to the loss of cultural identity by those affected by the law. 36. With regard to the report submitted by El Salvador (CERD/C/SLV/CO/14-15), the Committee urged the State party to enhance efforts to improve the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights by Afro-descendants. The Committee also urged the State party to adopt a plan for the ethnic recognition and visibility of Afro-descendants. 37. In its concluding observations on the report of Estonia (CERD/C/EST/CO/8-9), the Committee reiterated its general recommendation No. 27 (2000) on discrimination against Roma, whereby it called on the State party to conduct research with a view to assessing the real situation of the Roma community in its territory, and encouraged the State party to participate in initiatives aiming at finding national and regional solutions to the widespread exclusion of the Roma population. 38. Regarding France, the Committee recommended that the Government should ensure that all its policies concerning Roma are consistent with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, that it should avoid collective repatriations in particular, and that it should endeavour to find lasting solutions to issues related to Roma, with full respect for their human rights (CERD/C/FRA/CO/17-19). 39. With regard to the report submitted by Romania (CERD/C/ROU/CO/16-19), the Committee referred to its general recommendation No. 27 (2000) on discrimination against the Roma and encouraged the State party to continue its efforts and to take the measures necessary to prevent and combat racial discrimination against the Roma. 40. With regard to Uzbekistan, the Committee recommended that the State party should include detailed information in its next report on the situation of Roma, in particular on measures to address the education levels of Roma, which appeared to be considerably lower than the national average (CERD/C/UZB/CO/6-7). 4. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Forty-fifth session (18 January – 5 February 2010) 41. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women called on Egypt to overcome expeditiously the de facto segregation in the educational system, to encourage actively the diversification of educational and professional choices for women and men and to offer incentives for young women to enter traditionally male-dominated fields of study (CEDAW/C/EGY/CO/7). The Committee requested the State party to provide, in its next report, information about access to education for girls from minority and refugee communities and for girls living in the street. 42. Regarding the Netherlands, the Committee called upon the State party to intensify its efforts to eliminate discrimination against immigrant, migrant, black, Muslim and other minority women (CEDAW/C/NLD/CO/5). It encouraged the adoption of proactive measures to increase further their participation in the labour market, improve their 10