A/HRC/37/17 116.162 Adopt special measures to ensure that persons in particularly vulnerable situations, such as children, have meaningful access to the justice system and other complaint procedures (Bahrain); 116.163 Address discrimination against children on the basis of their ethnic origin or economic situation (Iraq); 116.164 Continue efforts to protect effectively women, children, and ethnic minorities’ rights, and combat discrimination they are facing (Poland); 116.165 Prohibit corporal punishment of children in all settings, including at home (Montenegro); 116.166 Continue its efforts for the protection of children and combating child labour (Tunisia); 116.167 Ensure access of persons with disabilities to education, employment, public transportation, health and political participation, and eliminate discriminatory laws and regulations (Mexico); 116.168 Continue allocating adequate funds for welfare programmes providing support to persons with disabilities (Azerbaijan); 116.169 Continue with its efforts to increase the number of persons with disabilities employed in the public service (Brunei Darussalam); 116.170 Continue to effectively address issues such as poor access to education and health systems for persons with disabilities (Japan); 116.171 Continue the protection programmes and policies of the Tamil population so that they can fully enjoy their rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights (Peru); 116.172 Give particular attention to the effective participation of minorities in the decision-taking process, offering equal economic and social opportunities, and to create practices and institutions to ensure that the ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity of the country can be fully integrated (Guatemala); 116.173 Accelerate the enactment of the Sri Lanka Employment Migration Authority Act on the protection of migrant workers and their families in line with the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (Indonesia); 116.174 Apply alternatives to detention of irregular migrants, in particular for families and children (Portugal); 116.175 Reinforce its policies to provide asylum seekers and refugees access to education services that are available nationally (Holy See); 116.176 Exert further efforts to ensure return and resettlement of the remaining internally displaced persons (Azerbaijan); 116.177 Strengthen measures to address the needs of people affected and displaced by conflict and seek durable solutions to their displacement (Egypt). 117. The recommendations formulated during the interactive dialogue listed below have been examined by Sri Lanka and have been noted by Sri Lanka: 117.1 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (Montenegro) (Spain); 117.2 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Poland); 117.3 Halt the use of the death penalty in all circumstances and take steps towards its abolition, including ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (New Zealand); 20

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