E/CN.4/2005/88/Add.2 page 22 Legislative measures 94. Regulatory legislation giving full and effective application to the constitutional provisions on the human rights of indigenous peoples should be passed as soon as possible. 95. Any draft legislation, draft constitutional reform or other initiative which introduces into the law provisions that violate indigenous peoples’ rights or the principle of diversity should be withdrawn. 96. The other branches of government should fully respect the powers of the Constitutional Court, and refrain from limiting the scope of the amparo procedure, which is one of the principal mechanisms for the defence of indigenous peoples’ human rights. Indigenous women 97. The Special Rapporteur recommends the establishment of an effective mechanism for the protection and promotion of the rights of Colombia’s indigenous women, with the aim of forestalling violations of their fundamental rights and promoting their active involvement in decisions affecting their lives and their active development within their communities. 98. Existing programmes on the provision of basic social services should be extended so as to improve the situation of indigenous women and children in rural areas, and in particular displaced women and children, with regard to health and education. Indigenous rights defenders and human rights defenders 99. Programmes should be set up in conjunction with civil society organizations and human rights defenders active in indigenous affairs, as a means of joining forces to ensure the attainment of the Government’s laudable aims in terms of the promotion and protection of the human rights of indigenous people. Military service 100. Indigenous people should continue to be excluded from the bill on compulsory military service. Congress should not approve any law limiting or restricting the autonomy and freedoms of social and human rights NGOs. 101. Schemes for children and youngsters such as the network of informers, the introduction of peasant soldiers and the “soldiers for a day” programme should be discontinued. Administration of justice 102. Prosecution services should investigate and apply the law in all complaints concerning abuses and violations committed against members of indigenous communities by members of the armed forces or the police.