A/HRC/19/17 77.41. In light of what is provided in article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and with the support of the international community, improve the system of birth registration including by intensifying efforts to sensitize and mobilize public opinion regarding the advantages of birth registration in the process of establishing children’s identity and the enjoyment of their rights (Uruguay); 77.42. Intensify programs to combat unemployment and poverty (Algeria); 77.43. Speed up implementation of policies and measures for promotion and protection of the basic social and economic rights, where major challenges would be disease control, illiteracy eradication, poverty reduction and food security (Vietnam); 77.44. Strengthen its efforts to meet the challenge of sustaining and improving the standard of living of the people and employment opportunities in rural areas (Lao People’s Democratic Republic); 77.45. Adopt urgent measures to improve access to health services, particularly in remote communities (Costa Rica); 77.46. Consult and involve NGOs as well as civil society in the follow-up to the UPR (Austria). 78. The following recommendations enjoy the support of Timor-Leste which considers that they are already implemented or in the process of implementation: 78.1. Continue to cooperate with the UN and other international organisations to develop its legal and institutional framework with respect to the promotion and protection of Human Rights in Timor-Leste (Lao People’s Democratic Republic); 78.2. Continue building and strengthening national democratic mechanisms including the judicial institutions, and put in place all necessary institutional mechanisms for protecting the vulnerable population from all kinds of abuses (Nepal); 78.3. Consider drawing up a comprehensive human rights’ national plan of action (Indonesia); 78.4. Increase and consolidate the level of public awareness of the law and of mechanisms that are available to enforce human rights, particularly among women and young girls (Portugal); 78.5. Further increase regional and international cooperation on human rights, particularly with the ASEAN nations and with the Human Rights Council (Vietnam); 78.6. Continue to intensify strategies to eliminate violence against women, ensure that women enjoy a legal capacity identical to that of men, and remedy the gender gap faced by women in employment (Japan); 78.7. Continue efforts to ensure gender equality and participation of women in public institutions, including local institutions, as well as in the private sector (Spain); 78.8. Organize campaigns aiming at promoting gender equality and to reinforce existing mechanisms to combat and to punish perpetrators of violence against women (Brazil); 16

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