A/HRC/16/39 5. Committee against Torture Forty-fourth session (26 April – 14 May 2010) 49. Following its review of the report submitted by Austria (CAT/C/AUT/CO/4-5), the Committee against Torture concluded that the State party should continue its efforts to diversify the composition of its police force and correction services and to extend recruitment drives among ethnic minority communities throughout the country. 50. With regard to the Syrian Arab Republic (CAT/C/SYR/CO/1), the Committee recommended that the State party should take urgent measures to ensure prompt, thorough, impartial and effective investigation into all allegations of torture, ill-treatment, death in custody, death during military service and incommunicado detention of people belonging to the Kurdish minority, in particular of political activists of Kurdish origin, and to prosecute and punish law enforcement, security, intelligence and prison officials who carried out, ordered or acquiesced in such practices. 6. Committee on the Rights of the Child Fifty-fourth session (25 May – 11 June 2010) 51. In its concluding observations on the report submitted by the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (CRC/C/MKD/CO/2), the Committee on the Rights of the Child recommended that the State party should take all measures necessary to protect the rights of children belonging to minority groups to respect their culture and guarantee their enjoyment of the rights enshrined in the national Constitution, domestic law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. 52. With regard to Japan, the Committee recommended that the State party should take the legislative or other measures necessary to eliminate discrimination against children belonging to ethnic minorities in all spheres of life and ensure their equal access to all services and assistance provided for under the Convention (CRC/C/JPN/CO/3). 53. In its concluding observations regarding Nigeria (CRC/C/NGA/CO/3-4), the Committee urged the State party to conduct a study analysis in order to respond adequately to needs, particularly those of the Ogoni community, and ensure that children of minority groups are given equal access to education and equal opportunities to develop qualifications through the introduction of appropriate and adequate curricula that recognize their right to use and receive education in their own language. Fifty-fifth session (13 September – 1 October 2010) 54. With regard to the report submitted by Burundi (CRC/C/BDI/CO/2), the Committee recommended that the State party take all measures necessary to address the recommendations from the concluding observations of the initial report that had not yet been implemented or not sufficiently implemented. The issues concerned included monitoring mechanisms, birth registration, discrimination against the Batwa minority and juvenile justice. 55. The Committee recommended that Montenegro should prioritize children’s rights and welfare in State budget policy. In this regard, the Committee recommended that the State party should pay special attention to economically disadvantaged, marginalized and neglected children, including Roma, Sakhalin and Egyptian children and children with disabilities, with a view to alleviating disparities, deficits and inequalities (CRC/C/MNE/CO/1). 12