A/HRC/11/37 efforts should be made for its implementation, including its coordination, the periodic planning to monitor and check its progress and for Chinese civil society to have a role in monitoring and evaluating its implementation. 542. The Federation of Cuban Women noted China’s great efforts to guarantee food, education, health and a good life. It also noted that women in China had been given equality of rights, including through legal guarantees, and of measures taken to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women, promote gender equality for development, establish a programme for women’s progress, with a special body to supervise and evaluate its implementation and indicate women’s progress. 543. Amnesty International believed that the Chinese authorities had undermined the value of the country’s universal periodic review by rejecting a large number of recommendations covering a broad range of human rights, and had seriously undermined the credibility of the review outcome by manipulating the contributions of civil society to the process. It urged the Government to reconsider the recommendations that had not enjoyed China’s support, including regularly publishing figures on the death penalty; ending the death penalty and administrative detention, persecution for exercising rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly, repression of national ethnic minorities, including Tibetans and Uighurs, and persecution of other religious practitioners; and implementing the 2008 recommendations of the Committee against Torture and ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Amnesty International was concerned about Macao’s national security law, which could be used to imprison individuals for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and association. 544. The China NGO Network for International Exchanges considered that China’s attitude to its first review had been serious and open, its report generally objective and balanced, having factored in opinions and suggestions from different sides and accepted supervision from the Chinese people and international society, as was the national human rights plan of action. It noted existing shortfalls in China, such as the imperfect social security system, insufficient protection of the rights of special groups and loose law enforcement. It urged the Government to use the review to take more effective steps, accept public supervision and continue international cooperation to upgrade the human rights protection of its people and to promote the global human rights cause. 545. The China Association for Preservation and Development of Tibetan Culture appreciated the fact that the Working Group had raised the issue of national minorities and that the human rights plan of action put emphasis on equality of all national minorities, and hoped that the Government would implement it well. With regard to priorities for improving people’s livelihood, including within the present financial crisis, it called for further emphasis on the lives of rural people in Tibet, a focus on vocational training of national minorities and for better legislative work to protect the rights and interests of Tibetan people. 546. The China Care and Compassion Society submitted its constructive and critical views during the preparation of China’s national report and independent reports submitted to OHCHR. It noted that China was implementing the national plan for children’s development and called for more attention to be paid to the protection of migrant children and of children left behind by migrant parents, and to meeting their basic needs for education and medical care. It also called on local governments and specialized agencies to study policies for their protection. 547. The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights was concerned about China’s rejection of many recommendations, including almost all of those seeking an improvement in the human rights situation of the Tibetan people. It believed that accepting those 140 GE.09-16766