A/HRC/42/2 had designed successive human development programmes and implemented the 2018-2021 Programme. It noted with pleasure that measures were taken to reduce poverty and hunger, to restore the right to free and quality education as well as to increase educational enrolment. 926. South Africa commended Nicaragua for its efforts to reduce poverty and ensure the enjoyment, particularly, of economic, social and cultural rights by its people, and encouraged Nicaragua and relevant institutions to make every effort to implement the recommendations it had accepted. 927. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland regretted that recommendations concerning freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly were noted on the basis that they were considered “unsubstantiated” and “distortions of reality”. It remained concerned about the decision of Nicaragua to end talks with the Civic Alliance. It urged Nicaragua to fulfil its commitments towards restoring democracy and create the right conditions for dialogue to resume. 928. UNICEF remained concerned over the high rates of violence against children and adolescents in Nicaragua, including sexual violence, corporal punishment adolescent pregnancy and femicide. It called on Nicaragua to redouble efforts to prevent and address any type of violence against children, including gender-based violence, sexual abuse and adolescent pregnancy, to enhance access to justice and specialised care for child victims, and to investigate and bring to justice those responsible for the deaths of children during the crisis. 929. UNFPA recognized the important achievements of Nicaragua concerning sexual and reproductive health, especially the strengthening of the regulatory framework and the capacities of health personnel to care for adolescents, with a consequent increase in access to modern contraceptives. However, it noted that adolescent fertility remained a challenge in Nicaragua. It renewed its commitment to sexual and reproductive rights in Nicaragua in both development and humanitarian emergency situations. 3. General comments made by other stakeholders 930. During the adoption of the outcome of the review of Nicaragua, eight other stakeholders made statements. 931. Conselho Indigenista Missionário applauded progress related to the issuance of land titles for indigenous and African-descent communities. Nevertheless, it inquired about measures taken to guarantee the use and full enjoyment of the right to property by indigenous peoples, reminding the State’s responsibility to protect and promote the communal property, in line with the Constitution. It referred to the illegal land occupation by third non-indigenous parties in the Mayangna Awastingni community, despite having the legal title over the communal land, and urged Nicaragua to peacefully resolve land conflicts within the rule of law, by promoting dialogue and the legal security of communal property. It recommended that Nicaragua further enhance actions towards true restitution of indigenous properties, through the recognition and implementation of internal communal rules. 932. Istituto Internazionale Maria Ausiliatrice delle Salesiane di Don Bosco, in a joint statement co-sponsored by the International Volunteerism Organization for Women, Education and Development, appreciated the acceptance of various recommendations related to children, youth and women rights, but considered that major efforts were needed to ensure the full enjoyment of rights, particularly in the field of education by vulnerable groups. It recommended Nicaragua to: strengthen implementation of the Education National Plan 20172021; ensure access to quality education in urban and rural areas, through increased budget allocations for training teachers; prevent and eradicate child labour and combat education dropout of children; and protect children and women against violence, through awareness raising campaigns and human rights education. 134