A/HRC/10/84 Page 12 States in the preparations of their visits. While no requests have been made by special procedures mandate-holders to visit Tuvalu, Latvia recommended that Tuvalu consider extending a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Council. 47. Maldives underlined, as noted in the national report, that the greatest threats facing Tuvalu, its people and their human rights are climate change and sea-level rise. Global warming immediately and directly undermines a wide range of fundamental rights in Tuvalu, including the rights to food, water, adequate housing, development, health and even life. It congratulated Tuvalu on its tireless efforts to protect the rights of its people by campaigning against humaninduced climate change. Maldives recognized that Tuvalu on its own is incapable of fully protecting the wide range of rights and freedoms directly implicated by climate change, which ultimately originates far beyond its borders. It thus considered that the international community, in particular the major emitting countries of the developed world, must also take responsibility by stopping their dangerous interference with the global climate system. Maldives recommended that Tuvalu continue to engage with the international community, particularly the major emitting countries of the developed world, many of whom are States members of the Council, and work with those countries in order to promote the human rights of Tuvaluans by securing significant global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. It also recommended that Tuvalu participate in discussions in the Council, scheduled in March 2009, on the relationship between human rights and climate change, in order to send a strong message to the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the importance of reaching an effective and workable global agreement on climate change mitigation and adaptation. 48. Brazil welcomed the important concrete steps taken in relation to the State’s accession to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the submission of its first report in June 2008. Brazil specifically noted the State’s recognition of the importance of setting up, as early as possible, a national commission for human rights and a human rights office in the country, and called on the international community to consider technical assistance and financial support in building such institutions as well as in providing human rights education programmes and awareness-raising activities. In the spirit of the upcoming Review Conference on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Brazil recommended that the Government keep working with OHCHR on this theme as they enter the final phase of the preparatory process for the Conference. Brazil recommended that the Government work towards accomplishing the human rights goals set by the Council in its resolution 9/12 and also towards strengthening its public policy to guarantee the rights of the child, with special attention to children without parental care. In recognizing the efforts made by Tuvalu, Brazil recommended the ratification of human rights treaties to which Tuvalu is not yet a party. Regarding access to justice, Brazil noted that since the only High Court is physically located in the capital, it is expensive for parties and witnesses residing in other islands to attend the hearing of their cases. It asked what measures are taken to make the High Court more accessible to the people of Tuvalu. 49. Cuba expressed its thanks for the presentation of the results achieved and took note of the problems and challenges remaining, which had been honestly acknowledged by the Government, as had the decisiveness and readiness to overcome them. It underscored the free access to medical health care provided by the Government and efforts and resources allocated to provide adequate care for serious cases where the necessary treatment is not available in the country, with patients sent to Fiji or New Zealand at the expense of the Government. It acknowledged the achievements in the field of education, particularly the improvement of curricula, and noted measures taken in supporting young people and the advancement of women. Cuba recommended