A/HRC/13/4 72. Make it a priority in its future plans to improve the situation of certain vulnerable groups, such as women, particularly those in rural areas, children, and persons with disabilities (Algeria); take further measures to provide protection and assistance to vulnerable social groups, including the elderly, persons with disabilities, poor families, orphans and others (Belarus); 73 Promote and protect the rights of vulnerable peoples, the right to education and to right to development to bring down poverty in urban and rural areas simultaneously while maintaining peace, stability and protection of the environment (Lao People's Democratic Republic); 74. Close the so-called rehabilitation centres, where poor people living on the streets arrested in police operations are held, and pursue adequate social policies that address the problems of the concerned socially disadvantaged groups (Austria); 75. Ensure transparent management of oil, gas and mineral revenues to meet the social and economic rights of people living in Cambodia by adopting international best practice, in particular implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (Ireland); 76. Intensify its public expenditure on the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights (Netherlands); continue efforts in allocating more resources to ensure the betterment of economic and social rights of citizens, in particular in the areas of poverty reduction, urban-rural equality, education, public services, etc. (Viet Nam); carry out the necessary efforts to increase expenditures for social programmes, particularly relative to education and access to housing (Mexico); further increase its national spending on health and education sectors to meet the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (Azerbaijan); 77. Further strengthen the law reforms and policy aimed at protecting the people’s rights and for the betterment of the poor and other disadvantaged groups (Viet Nam); 78. Stay steadfast in promoting adequate social policies that aim to achieve just distribution of wealth and social wellbeing of the population (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela); 79. As recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, intensify efforts to achieve better promotion and protection of the rights of the child (Algeria); 80. Continue the development of specific legislation to promote and protect the rights of the child, including civil society participation, preventive measures in education and reinsertion into society of minors in difficult situations (Spain); 81. Incorporate a legal definition of the child, a minimum age for criminal responsibility and sexual consent, and enforce the law on the minimum age of marriage, as recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and develop and implement national legislation which criminalizes and penalizes the distribution, sale and display of child pornography (Israel); 82. Continue to seek technical assistance in drafting legislation in the field of children’s rights (Slovenia); 83 Strengthen its policy for the full guarantee of the rights of the child with attention to the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of 20

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