A/HRC/19/27 Fifty-eighth session (19 September - 7 October 2011) 75. With regard to the report submitted by Italy, the Committee recommended that the State party develop and adopt, with the participation of affected communities, a national plan of action for the genuine social integration of the Roma in Italian society, taking into due consideration the vulnerable situation of Roma children.44 76. With regard to the report submitted by Panama, the Committee recommended that the State party make efforts, in collaboration with civil society, to eliminate social discrimination and prejudice against Afro-Panamanian and indigenous children, and that it take all necessary steps to address and prevent the marginalization and discrimination of Afro-Panamanian girls and boys.45 77. With regard to the report submitted by the Republic of Korea, the Committee strongly encouraged the State party to take all necessary measures, including awarenessraising and public education campaigns, to eradicate and prevent discriminatory attitudes towards children in vulnerable or minority situations. 46 B. General comments 78. At its 102nd session, the Human Rights Committee adopted its general comment No.34, on the freedoms of opinion and expression (CCPR/C/GC/34). The Committee encouraged free and uncensored press or other media, and observed that, in order to protect the rights of minority media users and for them to be able to receive a wide range of information and ideas, States parties should take particular care to encourage independent and diverse media. With regard to the right of access to information, the Committee observed that, under article 27, a State party’s decision-making that may substantively compromise the way of life and culture of a minority group should be undertaken in a process of information-sharing and consultation with affected communities. 79. At its seventy-ninth session, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination adopted its general recommendation No. 34, on racial discrimination against people of African descent (CERD/C/GC/34). The Committee highlighted the right of people of African-descent to enjoy all human rights on the basis of equality and nondiscrimination, including the rights to property, to cultural identity, to protection of their traditional knowledge and to prior consultation in decisions which might affect them. Referring to the continued racial and institutional discrimination of people of African descent, the Committee observed that overcoming the structural discrimination that affects people of African descent called for the urgent adoption of special measures (affirmative action). For the exercise of the rights of people of African descent, the Committee recommended that States parties take general and special measures and take into full consideration racial discrimination against women and children of the people of African descent. The Committee also recommended protecting the people of African descent from hate speech and racial violence through the administration of justice, and that State parties guarantee the people of African descent civil and political, economic, social and cultural rights and facilitate their access to citizenship and education. 80. In 2011, the Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted its general comment No. 13, on the right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence (CRC/C/GC/13). Children are often the victims of violence, who are marginalized, disadvantaged and 44 45 46 CRC/C/ITA/CO/3-4, para. 80 (b). CRC/C/PAN/CO/3-4, paras. 34 (a) and 81. CRC/C/KOR/CO/3-4, para. 29 (b). 15