A/HRC/61/41/Add.1 National institutions (d) Provide sufficient resources to ensure the effective functioning of its national human rights institutions, to ensure the implementation of their recommendations, as well as their presence at the local level, including the National Human Rights Commission, the National Women Commission, the National Dalit Commission, the National Inclusion Commission, the Tharu Commission, the Muslim Commission, the Indigenous Nationalities Commission and the Madhesi Commission; (e) Ensure that the appointed commissioners and the staff of the National Human Rights Commission, the National Women Commission, the National Dalit Commission, the National Inclusion Commission, the Tharu Commission, the Muslim Commission, the Indigenous Nationalities Commission and the Madhesi Commission represent the population groups that the commissions are meant to serve; (f) Establish a legal framework to enable timely State responses to the recommendations of the National Human Rights Commission, the National Women Commission, the National Dalit Commission, the National Inclusion Commission, the Tharu Commission, the Muslim Commission, the Indigenous Nationalities Commission and the Madhesi Commission, as well as mechanisms for public reporting on follow-up actions, to ensure accountability and implementation; (g) Support the National Human Rights Commission, the National Women Commission, the National Dalit Commission, the National Inclusion Commission, the Tharu Commission, the Muslim Commission, the Indigenous Nationalities Commission and the Madhesi Commission in carrying out nationwide awareness-raising campaigns to eliminate the practice of caste-based, ethnic and faith-based discrimination, to prevent caste-based, ethnic and faith-based violence and to inform communities on how to lodge complaints and submit information to the commissions; Data collection (h) Establish a comprehensive public system to collect data on discrimination against minorities, as well as based on caste, disaggregated by age, religion, caste, nationality, ethnicity, gender, disability and socioeconomic status, in order to inform policy and to capture the correlation between caste, ethnicity, discrimination and inequality; Legislation (i) Adopt comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation that prohibits indirect and direct discrimination against minorities and Dalits and that protects minorities, Dalits and other disadvantaged and marginalized groups, including in all areas of private and public life. This would include ensuring the appropriate intersectional legal recognition of all persons with disabilities from minority groups and Dalits; (j) Amend the Caste-based Discrimination and Untouchability (Offence and Punishment) Act to strengthen protections for victims, expand the definition of caste-based offences to reflect emerging forms of discrimination and ensure that investigations and prosecutions proceed without requiring formal complaints from victims, in alignment with international human rights obligations; (k) Amend the punitive anti-conversion provisions in the Criminal Code (arts. 156, 158 and 159) and create safeguards to ensure that the prohibition of forced conversions is not being used, as has been the case, as a tool to discriminate against or harass religious minorities in Nepal; Equal access to socioeconomic rights (l) Adopt and implement targeted, adequately funded and time‑bound measures to ensure equitable access to quality education for minority and Dalit children, including by expanding scholarships and financial support, increasing recruitment of teachers from minority and Dalit communities, integrating inclusive and 18 GE.26-01953