Accepted
general
recommendations
were:
to
adopt
and
implement
firmly
all
necessary
measures
to
improve
and
ensure
respect
of
the
rights
of
people
belonging
to
minorities
(from
Switzerland);
to
redouble
efforts
for
the
effective
implementation
of
criminal
provisions
relating
to
acts
of
ethnic
discrimination
against
persons
belonging
to
minority
groups
(from
Mexico);
to
take
more
resolute
action
to
prevent
and
punish
perpetrators
of
racially
motivated
acts
and
propaganda
that
targeted
ethnic
minorities
and
foreigners
(from
Malaysia);
to
develop
effective
measures
to
overcome
continuing
discriminatory
patterns
against
ethnic
minorities
and
others
through
education
and
training
(from
Spain);
to
evaluate
the
need
for
tuition
in
a
special
school
on
the
basis
of
the
child's
personal
characteristics,
not
on
his
or
her
ethnicity
(from
Finland);
and
to
fully
respect
all
international
obligations
by
accepting
the
legally
binding
United
Nations
documents
and
by
respecting
the
decisions
of
the
other
United
Nations
bodies
and
other
organizations
at
the
national
level
in
regard
to
minority
rights
(from
Macedonia
FYR).
One
specific
recommendation
was
on
religious
minorities:
to
take
necessary
measures
to
ensure
that
local
authorities
respect
the
religious
freedom
of
minority
religious
groups
and
treat
all
religious
groups
equally
(from
the
United
States).
Another
specific
recommendation
was
to
promote
the
identity
of
the
Armenian
minority
by
further
addressing
its
educational,
religious
and
cultural
needs
(from
Armenia).
The
rest
were
focusing
on
the
situation
of
Roma:
to
continue
to
give
political
attention,
commitment
and
concrete
action;
strengthen
the
implementation
of
policies
and
programmes
focused
on
the
inclusion
of
Roma;
fully
ensure
the
enjoyment
of
human
rights
by
Roma;
combat
discrimination
and
violence;
guarantee
access
to
basic
health
and
social
services,
education,
housing
and
employment;
ensure
that
due
consideration
is
given
in
all
policymaking
processes
to
the
impact
on
Roma
of
proposed
legislation;
ensure
necessary
resources
to
facilitate
the
implementation
of
programs;
and
to
use
more
actively
existing
or
new
platforms
for
involving
the
Roma
community
in
policy
formulation
and
implementation
at
both
the
local
and
central
levels
(from
Slovakia,
Canada,
Morocco,
Denmark,
Spain,
the
Netherlands).
Several
recommendations
addressed
Roma
children
in
particular:
to
set
up
a
policy
specifically
aimed
at
reducing
the
number
of
Roma
children
placed
without
valid
reasons
in
establishments
for
children
with
disabilities
or
in
rehabilitation
centres
(from
Canada);
to
ensure
that
Roma
children
are
not
sent
to
special
schools
for
the
disabled,
but
instead
are
schooled
together
with
other
Bulgarian
children
(from
Finland);
to
avoid
the
practice
of
the
school
segregation
of
Roma
children,
for
example
with
primary
school
teachers,
who
are
speaking
their
mother
tongue,
with
the
objective
of
achieving
an
effective
learning
of
the
Bulgarian
language
and
other
subjects
taught
(from
Spain);
to
communicate
more
efficiently
to
Roma
parents
the
importance
of
literacy
and
the
positive
effect
of
education
on
the
children's
future
by
using
the
help
of
school
assistants
with
a
Romani
background
and
guarantee
that
the
implementation
of
the
law
on
compulsory
preschool
education
for
all
children
covers
the
Roma
as
well
as
other
minorities
(from
Finland).
One
recommendation
was
to
strengthen
awareness-‐raising
campaigns
aimed
at
preventing
human
trafficking
and
increase
the
protection
provided
to
victims,
notably
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