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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);
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