A/HRC/43/5 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 Regarding the rights of persons with disabilities, El Salvador had withdrawn the reservation to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.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 3

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