A/HRC/17/15 76.67 Make food security a priority (Norway); 76.68 Engage the relevant international organizations and international donors to address the problem of food crises and provide better access to safe drinking water for the population (Malaysia); 76.69 Take all necessary measures granting women, especially those in rural areas, equal access to health services and healthcare, participation in decision making (Luxembourg); 76.70 Continue to adopt measures in order to reduce effectively maternal mortality rate and child and infant mortality rates (China); 76.71 Give priority to the continuation of efforts to promote the right to education (Saudi Arabia); 76.72 Implement an awareness-raising campaign for parents aimed at increasing the school enrolment rate of girls (Canada); 76.73 Ensure the increase of financial resource allocation to the field of public education with a view to improving the quality of education, build an appropriate infrastructure and ensure that compulsory primary education lasts for six years (Ecuador); 76.74 Further expand its school feeding programme and integrate it with local agricultural production (Brazil); 76.75 Strengthen its cooperation with the international community, in particular specialized agencies and programmes of the United Nations system with a view to building capacity and getting technical assistance in crucial areas such as human development, poverty eradication, education and health (Malaysia); 76.76 Seek cooperation to United Nations agencies and international organizations, in order to request assistance to improve poverty indicators; access to food, drinking water and health (Chile); 76.77 Seek assistance from the international community to advance its human rights agenda (Pakistan). 77. Niger considers that recommendations 76.22, 76.32, 76.33 and 76.47 above are already implemented or the in the process of implementation. 78. The following recommendations will be examined by Niger which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the seventeenth session of the Human Rights Council in June 2011: 78.1 Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED), sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OP-CAT) and establish a national independent mechanism to inspect detention places (France); 78.2 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR), the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR-OP2), OP-CAT, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OP-CRC-AC), and CED (Argentina); 16 GE.11-12306

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