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prevention of child abuse and sexual abuse; and the amendment of the Child and
Adolescent Protection Act (2017), which prohibited all forms of violence against children
and adolescents in public and private educational establishments.
8.
Regarding the rights of persons with disabilities, El Salvador had withdrawn the
reservation to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In addition, it was
implementing a National Policy on Comprehensive Attention for Persons with Disabilities
and had developed the National Survey of People with Disabilities. The delegation also
referred to the extension of the educational strategy of the “support classroom” and the
implementation of the Inclusive Education Policy, the approval of the Inclusive and
Equitable Policy for the Effective Participation of Young Persons with Disabilities, the
taking into account of accessibility considerations when executing public works, and the
training provided to public servants in the Supreme Court of Justice and the Counsel
General’s Office in the use of Salvadoran Sign Language.
9.
El Salvador had incorporated recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples into its
Constitution in 2014. In addition, it noted the incorporation of an indigenous perspective
into the next population and housing census, the adoption of protection and safeguard
measures for the conservation of the Nahuatl cultural heritage, the adoption of the National
Policy for Indigenous Peoples and the National Plan of Action for Indigenous Peoples, and
the adoption of the National Health Policy for Indigenous Peoples.
10.
In relation to the right to health, the delegation referred to the gradual increase in the
budget of the Ministry of Health, capacity-building activities focused on specific groups,
the launch of the National Health Plan by the President, Nayib Bukele, which included
among its objectives the provision of medicines and medical supplies, and the improvement
of services and strengthening of the preventive approach to health care.
11.
In the field of education, El Salvador had implemented the National Literacy
Programme and had developed programmes to improve school infrastructure. It had
provided school meals programmes in selected public schools, and school kits in public
schools nationwide.
12.
Regarding the fight against poverty, El Salvador had implemented the Poverty
Eradication Strategy. It had adopted the National Housing and Habitat Policy, in 2015, and
had implemented specific programmes aimed at facilitating access to housing for women,
for young people and for people unable to afford regular financing. In addition, the
minimum wage had been increased in 2017.
13.
With regard to public security, the delegation indicated that the 2014–2019 Security
Plan had been implemented and that the Territorial Control Plan was being implemented as
of June 2019. The plans included the recovery of territories, the restoration of the social and
community fabric, the execution of public works, and the participation of all government
departments in work coordinated by the National Directorate for the Restoration of the
Social Fabric under the leadership of the President.
14.
In relation to the rights of migrants, El Salvador had adopted the National Policy on
the Protection and Advancement of Migrants and Their Families, in 2017. The
Coordination Committee for Child and Adolescent Migrants had issued technical guidelines
for the reception, care and protection of returned children and adolescents, in 2014, and a
protocol for the protection and care of Salvadoran child and adolescent migrants, in 2017.
In addition, El Salvador had adopted a Special Act on Migration and Alien Affairs, which
included a protection framework for vulnerable migrants. Moreover, El Salvador had joined
the Comprehensive Regional Protection and Solutions Framework and developed a related
national action plan.
15.
Regarding the fight against impunity for crimes committed in the context of the
internal armed conflict, El Salvador had declared unconstitutional the General Amnesty
(Peacebuilding) Act, had created a special unit within the Attorney General’s Office to
investigate cases from the internal armed conflict, had issued a policy on the criminal
prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the context of the
armed conflict in El Salvador, had established the Intersectoral Committee on Restorative
Justice and the National Commission on the Search for Adults who Disappeared during the
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