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measures, legislative and otherwise, taken by the State party in relation to forced evictions, in
line with the Committee’s general comment No. 7. The Committee also requests the State party
to include statistical information on the extent of homelessness in the State party, disaggregated
by age, sex, urban/rural population and ethnic group, in its next report.
44.
The Committee recommends to the State party to ensure and monitor the full access of
rape victims to legal abortion, to implement the Equal Start in Life Programme in all of its states,
to ensure full access by everyone, especially by girls and young women, to reproductive health
services and education, especially in rural areas and in indigenous communities, and to allocate
sufficient resources for these purposes.
45.
The Committee urges the State party to increase the number of primary and secondary
school teachers, especially in indigenous and remote areas, as well as the budget for education,
in particular for intercultural and bilingual education, to strengthen and upgrade schooling
programmes for indigenous and migrant children, child workers and children belonging to other
disadvantaged and marginalized groups, in particular girls, and to report on the progress made in
achieving universal access to compulsory primary and secondary education in its next report.
46.
The Committee recommends that the State party consider the adoption of legislation to
recognize, register and protect the collective authorship of indigenous peoples of their traditional
knowledge and cultural heritage and to prevent the unauthorized use of scientific, literary and
artistic productions of indigenous peoples by third parties, in line with the Committee’s general
comment No. 17.
47.
The Committee requests the State party to disseminate the present concluding
observations widely among all levels of society, particularly among government officials and
judicial authorities, and to inform the Committee on all steps taken to implement them in its next
periodic report. It also encourages the State party to engage non-governmental organizations and
other members of civil society in the process of discussion at the national level prior to the
submission of its next periodic report.
48.
The Committee requests the State party to submit its combined fifth and sixth periodic
reports by 30 June 2012.
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