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legislation in the housing sector, refrain from distributing social housing through public auction
at high prices; and increase the availability of social housing, in particular for the Roma. It also
urges the State party to ensure that the rights of affected individuals, including children, are
safeguarded and that alternative housing is provided whenever forced evictions take place, in line
with the Committee’s general comment No. 7 (1997) on the right to adequate housing, and to
include disaggregated data on the extent of homelessness, the number of forced evictions and
arrangements for alternative housing in its next periodic report.
46.
The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to ensure adequate
access for all, including the disadvantaged and marginalized individuals and groups, to healthcare services, especially in rural areas. In particular, it recommends that the State party promote
the recruitment and establishment of general practitioners in rural areas and implement public
health prevention programmes, as well as programmes for sexual and reproductive health.
47.
The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to address the socioeconomic causes of mental health problems and suicide and strengthen the provision of
psychological counselling services at the local level, as well as training of health professionals
on the causes and symptoms of depression and other mental health problems. It also requests the
State party to include a section on the mental health status of the population in its next periodic
report.
48.
The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen preventive health-care
services and improve public services, such as clean water, sewerage, waste disposal and
sanitation, particularly in Roma communities, and increase its efforts to address poor nutrition,
chronic stress and other factors contributing to the low life expectancy of Roma. It also
recommends that the State party intensify anti-discrimination campaigns and training of public
and private health-care providers.
49.
The Committee requests the State party to adopt a national plan of action to prevent
aggression in schools and to combat drug and alcohol abuse among children, as well as to
provide, in its next periodic report, disaggregated and comparative data, on an annual basis, on
the results achieved.
50.
The Committee urges the State party to take effective measures to end inter- and intraschool segregation of Roma children and to ensure that segregated pupils are mainstreamed into
the regular school system without delay; to enforce the prohibition of segregation under the
Equal Treatment Act and of limitations under the Education Act on free school choice and on the
proportion of severely disadvantaged children per school; to provide effective incentives for
integrated education; and to ensure that every application for private student status is reviewed
by an independent child protection expert. It recommends that the State party allocate sufficient
funds to the free provision of textbooks, mentorship programmes and scholarships for
disadvantaged students, in particular for the Roma, with a view to reducing dropout rates at the
secondary level and increasing Roma enrolment in higher education. It also requests the State
party to provide disaggregated data on enrolment, attendance and dropout rates of Roma at all
levels of education, as well as on the extent and the forms of segregation, in its next periodic
report.