A/HRC/25/30 (j) 61st session (17 September–5 October 2012) 63. In the report on Albania, the Committee on the Rights of the Child conveyed its concern that children who are particularly at risk of becoming victims of sale, child prostitution and child pornography, and notably, children of minority groups and children in street situations, as well as their parents, do not have adequate knowledge of strategies to protect children from those violations (CRC/C/ALB/CO/2-4, para. 13). In the concluding observations on the report of Austria, the Committee raised, as a concern, instances of hate speech by politicians and manifestations of neo-Nazism, racism, xenophobia and related intolerance towards migrant communities, refugees, asylum seekers and persons of certain ethnic backgrounds, and the impact of this on children belonging to those groups. The Committee also expressed concern about the paucity of information on education for minority children with disabilities and requested that such be provided in the next periodic report of Austria (CRC/C/AUT/CO/3-4, paras. 24, 44 and 45). (k) 63rd session (27 May–14 June 2013) 64. The Committee expressed special concern at the situation of girls from the Yezidi community in Armenia including with regard to their early marriage and recommended to the State party to fully enforce the age of marriage established under the law (CRC/C/ARM/CO/3-4, para. 27 and 28). In the report on Israel, the Committee specified the need for inclusive education for children from minority communities and requested the State party to establish inclusive education systems (CRC/C/ISR/CO/2-4, para. 62). In the report on Rwanda, the Committee recommended to the State party to allocate a sufficient budget for minority children (CRC/C/RWA/CO/3-4, para. 16). 65. In the report on Slovenia, education for Roma children was mentioned by the Committee, and the Committee requested the State party to allocate sufficient resources to allow Roma children to enrol in preschool education (CRC/C/SVN/CO/3-4, paras. 60 and 61). The Committee urged Uzbekistan to increase proactive measures to tackle discrimination. However, the Committee was concerned that, in practice, only mainstream religions were permitted, such as approved Muslim, Jewish and Christian denominations, while unregistered religious activities — which are frequently those of minorities — were subject to criminal and/or administrative sanctions, resulting in a curtailment of the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion (CRC/C/UZB/CO/3-4, paras. 7 and 32). V. Special procedures 66. On 25 January 2013, the Independent Expert on minority issues, together with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, urged the Iranian authorities to halt the execution of five Ahwazi activists. The mandate holders noted that “the number of cases of individuals belonging to minorities being sentenced for their activities related to their minority rights is a cause for serious concern”. 67. On 12 March 2013, the Independent Expert on minority issues urged world governments to take significant and urgent efforts to protect minority communities and their language rights. During the presentation of her report to the Human Rights Council, which summarized the issues and challenges affecting linguistic minorities globally, the Special Rapporteur stressed that the protection of linguistic minority rights was a human 14

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