A/HRC/28/13 109. The following recommendations will be examined by Madagascar which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the twenty-eighth session of the Human Rights Council in March 2015: 109.1 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (Montenegro); 109.2 Ratify the international human rights legal instruments to which Madagascar is not a party (Niger); 109.3 Further intensify efforts to ensure equitable access to health and education to all (Ethiopia); 109.4 Take urgent measures as necessary to overcome prison overcrowding (Central African Republic); 109.5 Decriminalize defamation, abolish insult laws and take all additional measures to ensure, in law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment for journalists (Ireland); 109.6 Take concrete steps to protect and promote freedom of expression and press freedom as outlined in the road map for ending the crisis (Japan); 109.7 Have a regular dialogue with human rights defenders on an equal footing with them (Switzerland); 109.8 Step up its efforts in order to provide a safe environment for journalists, human rights defenders and other civil society actors (Tunisia); 109.9 Remove the restrictions on the capacity of journalists to freely criticize the Government without fearing reprisals by updating the law on communication of 1990, and the Special Commission on Audio-Visual Communication (Canada); 109.10 Take all the necessary measures, including material assistance and support programmes to families, to ensure that all persons, especially children, have an adequate standard of living, including access to clean drinking water and sanitation (Slovenia); 109.11 Provide greater resources to ensure universal access to drinking water and sanitation, particularly in rural areas (Spain); 109.12 Increase investments in its health system to ensure universal access to essential and affordable health services (Thailand); 109.13 Progressively realize the right to health to the maximum of its available resources by ensuring the equal and non-discriminatory access of all persons, including women and children to quality and low-cost community health care and the respect of this right by everybody; including “traditional leaders” and other stakeholders (Germany); 109.14 Raise the age of completion of compulsory schooling, with a view to properly address the issue of child labour, and ensure that primary education is free of charge for everyone (Italy); 109.15 Step up social measures to deal with children who are not attending school and promote their rights (Mauritania); 109.16 Take appropriate measures to ensure that primary education is totally free of charges (Mauritania); 22 GE.14-24933