A/HRC/13/16 64. Progressively implement economic, social and cultural rights, notably by ensuring the appropriate level of social expenditures (Angola); 65. Progressively realize economic and social rights and fulfil its obligation to dedicate maximum available resources to addressing the basic economic and social needs of its population (Portugal); 66. Establish a unified national policy to reduce poverty (Brazil); 67. Implement the national plan with a number of guidelines on economic and social policy in order to reduce poverty and improve living conditions of the population in the country (Azerbaijan); 68. Strengthen measures aimed at poverty eradication (South Africa); 69. Continue implementing the national strategy for combating poverty and seek the necessary assistance in this regard (Sudan); 70. Allocate necessary resources to the education and health sectors in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, reaching at a minimum the regional average level of investment in these sectors, while ensuring data collection that allows progress to be measured (Canada); 71. Continue to strengthen its efforts aimed at economic development, with particular emphasis on improvement of social infrastructure for service provision (South Africa); 72. Allocate necessary resources for the full realization of the rights under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), with a view to strengthening poverty reduction programmes and guaranteeing adequate access to health and education (Mexico); 73. Adopt measures and programmes to reduce the rates of maternal and infant mortality and of chronic child malnutrition (Chile); 74. Ensure that public hospitals and other health-care facilities and services are both affordable and accessible, in particular making provision for child maternal health services and for the prevention and treatment of preventable diseases; (Portugal) 75. Take further efforts to raise awareness of and increase access to health service facilities and medical assistance and to make family planning information available to women and girls, including in rural areas, taking into account in this regard, among others, the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (Netherlands); 76. Increase access to health-care services and medical assistance for women and children and make information on family planning available to them, especially in rural areas (Uruguay); 77. Ensure equal opportunities in the labour market, particularly by promoting access to work for the various social groups (Angola); 78. Pursue its efforts in the in the field of education in order to fulfil the Millennium Development Goals and consolidate the national plan of education for all (Algeria); 79. Prioritize efforts to comply with the commitment to guarantee free primary education, particularly taking into account that primary education 17

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