A/HRC/18/15 77.9. Take further measures to improve the living conditions in the prison system, in particular to reduce overcrowding and to improve prisoners’ access to health and education services (Austria); 77.10. Take prompt measures to put an end to the current overcrowding and precarious conditions of prisoners (Spain); 77.11. Take appropriate steps to establish “Approved Schools” as provided for in the Juvenile Act with the aim of, inter alia, separating juveniles from adult offenders serving custodial sentences (Malaysia); 77.12. Finalize the child protection protocol and establish the “Approved Schools” for juveniles as provided for by Government in the Juvenile Act (Barbados); 77.13. Promote prevention and assistance policies in the area of reproductive health, in particular for adolescents (Mexico); 77.14. Increase efforts to provide medical support for children and promote adolescent health policies with respect to reproductive health (Hungary); 77.15. Ensure adequate health and counselling support for adolescent mothers and take further steps to encourage the girls’ return to school upon delivering their child (Norway); 77.16. Redouble efforts to prevent school dropout and promote school enrolment in the rural areas (Mexico). 78. The following recommendations will be examined by Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the eighteenth session of the Human Rights Council in September 2011: 78.1. Sign (Spain) and ratify (Maldives) the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and establish a national preventive mechanism (Maldives); 78.2. Consider adhering to the human rights instruments to which it is not yet party, particularly the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Costa Rica); 78.3. Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Spain) as soon as possible, allowing individual complaints of alleged violations of these rights to be heard by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Portugal); 78.4. Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Spain); 78.5. Consider signing and progressively ratifying international human rights instruments to which the country is not yet a party, especially the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Uruguay); 78.6. Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (Slovakia); 16

Select target paragraph3

Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents