A/HRC/16/39 2. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Forty-fourth session (3 – 21 May 2010) 30. In its concluding observations on the report of Colombia (E./C.12/COL/CO/5), the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recommended that the State party should develop agricultural policies that prioritize the production of food, implement programmes that protect national production with incentives for small producers, and ensure the restitution of lands taken from indigenous and afro-Colombian peoples, as well as peasant communities. 31. With regard to the report submitted by Kazakhstan (E/C.12/KAZ/CO/1), the Committee called on the State party to ensure that counter-terrorism measures and legislation do not have a discriminatory effect on the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights by certain groups in the State party, in particular ethnic minorities. 32. The Committee noted with concern the persistence of illegal land seizures in Afghanistan, as well as the numerous cases of land disputes, which undermine the rule of law and the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights (E/C.12/AFG/CO/2-4). It regretted the fact that, owing to the lack of trust in the formal judicial system, many land dispute issues had been left to informal dispute resolution mechanisms and that discriminatory practices had provided certain ethnic groups with preferential access to land. The Committee recommended that the State party should adopt, inter alia, a coherent and comprehensive legal framework, as well as policies and administrative measures, to resolve land-related disputes. 3. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Seventy-sixth session (2 – 27 August 2010) 33. With regard to the report submitted by Australia (CERD/C/AUS/CO/15-17), the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination noted the reports highlighting ongoing issues of discrimination and inequity in access to and delivery of services experienced by members of certain minority communities, including African communities, people of Asian, Middle-Eastern and Muslim backgrounds and, in particular, Muslim women. In this regard, the Committee encouraged the State party to develop and implement an updated comprehensive multicultural policy that reflected its increasingly ethnically and culturally diverse society. The Committee also encouraged the State party to consider providing national minorities with adequate opportunities for the use and teaching of their own language. 34. In assessing the report of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CERD/C/BIH/CO/7-8), the Committee recommended that the State party should continue to endeavour to combat interethnic prejudices by, inter alia, applying existing criminal provisions on hate speech and hate crimes; continuing to strengthen and to promote, through awareness-raising campaigns, and other concrete steps, national unity, tolerance and the peaceful coexistence of members of various nationalities and religious groups; and by strengthening the monitoring powers of the Communications Regulatory Agency with regard to acts of public incitement to ethnic and religious hatred. The Committee also reiterated its recommendation No. 27 (2000), that the State party should continue to endeavour to combat prejudices against Roma, and to ensure that all Roma have access to personal documents necessary for them to enjoy their civil and political rights, as well as their economic, social and cultural rights. 35. In its concluding observations on the report submitted by Denmark (CERD/C/DNK/CO/18-19), the Committee recommended that the State party should take 9