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E. Suggestions and recommendations
25.
The Committee urges the State party to give full consideration to its previous concluding
observations.
26.
The Committee invites the State party to include information concerning case law on the
application of the Covenant in its next report. The Committee recommends that the State party
strengthen its efforts to improve training programmes on human rights and on the Covenant, in
particular for the judiciary, and other actors responsible for the implementation of the Covenant.
27.
The Committee recommends that the State party consider establishing an independent
national human rights institution, in accordance with the Paris Principles, with a mandate
covering all human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights.
28.
The Committee strongly recommends that the State party ensure that independent
non-governmental organizations for the promotion of human rights, including the rights
recognized under the Covenant, freely operate in the State party, in conformity with the
United Nations Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs
of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms.
29.
The Committee recommends that the State party adopt legislative and other measures to
prohibit racial discrimination, especially against Black Africans. The Committee requests the
State party in its next report to submit updated comparative annual data disaggregated by sex,
nationality, national and ethnic origin and rural/urban regions in the fields of all the provisions in
the Covenant, paying particular attention to the disadvantaged and marginalized individuals and
groups.
30.
The Committee encourages the State party to consider ratifying the 1951 Convention
Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol. The Committee also recommends that
the State party adopt a law establishing national asylum procedures and protecting the economic,
social and cultural rights of refugees and asylum-seekers.
31.
The Committee recommends that the State party provide the Committee with detailed
information on traditional attitudes affecting the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural
rights by women, and on steps adopted to overcome these obstacles. In this regard, the attention
of the State party is drawn to the Committee’s general comment No. 16 (2005) on article 3, and
the obligation of States parties to take steps aimed directly towards the elimination of prejudices,
customary and all other practices that perpetuate the notion of inferiority or superiority of either
of the sexes, and stereotyped roles for men and women. The Committee strongly recommends
that the State party undertake a thorough study on the extent of domestic violence in the country,
and that it provide information on this issue in its next report.
32.
The Committee recommends that the State party provide, in its next report, detailed
information, disaggregated by sex, age, nationality, national and ethnic origin, about the level of
unemployment in the country. The State party should also provide information on the level of