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37.
Recommendation: 120.132 is not accepted as members of national minorities are
provided with equal access to education.
2.
Cultural rights
38.
Recommendation: 120.146 is accepted.
E.
Vulnerable groups
1.
The rights of the child
39.
Recommendations: 120.170, 120.171, 120.172, 120.173, 120.174, 120.175, 120.176,
120.177are in the process of implementation.
40.
Given the Action Plan for Children is envisaged on the basis of the new
recommendations of the 5th and 6th periodic report on the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, governments of Entities, the Brcko District of BiH and cantons are responsible for
the protection of children without parental care, children with disabilities and juvenile
offenders.
41.
The competent authorities of the Republika Srpska have highlighted that they have
responsibility for the protection of persons with disabilities, including children, the
protection of children from violence, including corporal punishment and sexual abuse of
children, the suppression of juvenile delinquency, the support to families and child health
and the elimination of child labour and that they actively work to implement strategies and
other policies.
2.
Persons with disabilities
42.
Recommendations: 120.180, 120.181, 120.185, 120.186, 120.187, 120.188, 120.189,
120.190, 120. 191 are accepted.
43.
Recommendations: 120.179, 120.182, 120.183, 120.184, 120.192 are in the process
of implementation.
44.
The process of inclusion of children with disabilities has begun in the Entities and
cantons and BiHBD. The Entity governments have developed strategies to improve the
situation of persons with disabilities, which requires harmonization of laws with a view to
protecting all persons with disabilities, regardless of the cause of disability.
45.
In the field of health care, it is necessary to continue strengthening the health care
system of refugees, displaced persons, internally displaced persons and returnees, including
persons with disabilities.
3.
LGBTI
46.
Recommendations: 120.43, 120.54 are in the process of implementation.
47.
The Republika Srpska Government takes the position that there is no need for
designing a strategy for this area as the matter has been regulated in the valid gender
strategy.
48.
The Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has proposed the
adoption of a framework action plan in this field.
49.
In 2016 and 2017, the Entity Governments adopted operational plans for the
implementation of the BiH GAP, which have included measures for improving the rights of
LGBT persons and which represent the first institutional plans for improving the rights of
LGBT persons in BiH. One of the most important results in the implementation of the plans
is the harmonization of criminal laws with international legal standards that govern the
rights of LGBTI people.
50.
Recommendation 120.44 is not accepted.
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