A/HRC/10/83 Page 13 access to a lawyer. Hungary requested more information on the intentions of Uzbekistan to improve the living conditions and legal protection of persons with disabilities. It recommended that Uzbekistan adopt a law on equal rights and equal opportunities to protect the vulnerable, namely children, women and people with disabilities. It further recommended the reopening of the UNHCR Office in Uzbekistan. 64. Ukraine recommended that Uzbekistan strengthen cooperation with the special procedures of the Human Rights Council; extend invitations to the thematic special procedures; and respond to questionnaires of the mandate holders in due time. Ukraine noted a 2007 UNDP report on improvements in the health status of the population and the CESCR’s recommendation that Uzbekistan address the rural and urban disparities in health-care provision and that Uzbekistan take measures to prevent and combat the spread of HIV/AIDS. Ukraine expressed interest in the recent measures taken to ensure human rights in the ecological crisis zone. Ukraine recommended using appropriate international experience in this area. 65. Canada recommended that (a) Uzbekistan establish an independent international commission of inquiry tasked with the investigation in relation to the events of May 2005 in Andijan and to prosecute and punish all those responsible for human rights violations. Canada recommended that (b) the Uzbek Government ensure compliance with international child labour standards, including ILO Convention 182 on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour and collaborate with ILO to that effect and implement the relevant recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Human Rights Committee. Canada recommended that (c) Uzbekistan take effective measures to eliminate the use of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, investigate and prosecute all those responsible. Canada further recommended that (d) Uzbekistan release all detained human rights defenders and political prisoners. Canada recommended that (e) Uzbekistan keep all places of detention under systematic review. Canada recommended that Uzbekistan maintain continued and unfettered access by the ICRC to detention facilities following the agreement reached in March 2008. Canada recommended that (f) Uzbekistan adopt measures to prevent any harassment or intimidation of all those exercising the right to freedom of opinion and expression, including journalists and human rights defenders. Canada recommended that (g) Uzbekistan ensure that its legislation and practice fully respect article 19 of the ICCPR. Canada recommended that (h) Uzbekistan take effective measures to combat violence against women and ensure the full and equal enjoyment by women of all human rights without discrimination. 66. Poland recommended that Uzbekistan take effective measures to ensure the full implementation of ILO Conventions 182 and 138, and that it stop the practice of sending schoolage children to participate in the harvesting of cotton. Poland recommended that Uzbekistan ratify the OP-CAT; that it improve conditions of places of detention; that it ensure in practice better access of every detainee to lawyers, medical treatment and family members and other legal guarantees to ensure protection from torture; and that it allow full access of the ICRC to all places of detention. 67. Switzerland recommended Uzbekistan to do its utmost to eliminate forced child labour and to intensify its efforts to effectively implement the national legislation, in particular the labour code of 1996, and international conventions ratified by the Government on this subject. Switzerland recommended following the recommendations made by the Committee against Torture to adopt all necessary measures to combat impunity. Switzerland recommended inviting the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment to examine the question of the possible use of torture and to extend a standing invitation to all