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that the State party consider ratifying the ILO Convention No. 131 on Minimum Wage-Fixing.
32.
The Committee encourages the State party to consider ratifying the Council of Europe
Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.
33.
The Committee requests the State party to provide detailed information, including
statistical data, in its next periodic report, on the assistance programmes for the voluntary return
of refugees and asylum-seekers.
34.
The Committee requests the State party to provide detailed information, in its next
periodic report, on the results and follow-up initiatives of the reforms policies and programmes
adopted to improve the quality of life of the elderly, such as the competency study focused on
staff in elderly care. It also invites the State party to provide more detailed information on the
‛Free Choice Act’.
35.
It invites the State party to identify disaggregated health indicators and appropriate
national benchmarks in relation to the right to health, in line with the Committee’s General
Comment No. 14 (2000), and to include information on the process of identifying such
indicators and benchmarks in its next report, as already indicated in its previous concluding
observations (E/C.12/1/Add.70, para. 34).
36.
The Committee encourages the State party to consider ratifying the International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their
Families.
37.
The Committee requests the State party to disseminate the present concluding
observations widely among all levels of society, to translate and publicize them in the national
languages of Sweden, and to inform the Committee on the steps taken to implement them in its
next periodic report. It also encourages the State party to continue engaging 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.
38.
The Committee invites the State party to update its core document in accordance with
the 2006 harmonised guidelines on reporting to the international human rights treaty monitoring
bodies (HRI/GEN/2/Rev.5).
39.
The Committee requests the State party to submit its sixth periodic report by 30 June
2013.
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