A/HRC/10/79 Page 18 15. To adopt adequate measures for the protection and promotion of religious freedom, in order to ensure effective freedom of worship for all religious communities (Italy); to take measures to grant effective and unhindered enjoyment of the freedom of religion (Germany); 16. To fully respect the rights of everyone to be free to leave and return to their own country, in conformity with article 12 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to which Turkmenistan is party (Norway); 17. To take a proactive approach to combating HIV/AIDS through educational and awareness-raising programmes for both the general public and drug users (Canada); 18. To continue to improve the situation of education in line with recent reforms in this sector (Bangladesh); to continue its efforts to establish an educational system in conformity with international standards, especially, as recommended by the Committee of the Rights of the Child, through the inclusion of human rights education in the curricula (Algeria); 19. To call on the international community to provide economic and technical assistance to Turkmenistan to allow it to implement a strategy for economic, political and cultural development until 2020 (China). 70. The following recommendations will be examined by Turkmenistan, which will provide responses in due time. The responses will be included in the outcome report to be adopted by the Council at its tenth session. In the course of the discussion, the following recommendations were made to Turkmenistan: 1. Accede to/ratify the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court (France, Brazil, Slovakia); consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (Brazil) and establish its national preventive mechanism according to the Protocol (Czech Republic); consider ratifying the Convention for the Protection of all Persons against Enforced Disappearance and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Brazil); 2. To establish an independent national institute for human rights according to the Paris Principles, which could advise the Government and receive and investigate complaints by the public (Netherlands); 3. To reach the human rights goals set by the Council in its resolution 9/12 (Brazil); 4. To increase cooperation with the special procedures and eventually consider extending a standing invitation to all special procedures (Latvia); to address a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Council (Switzerland); to consider adopting a standing invitation to human rights special procedures (Brazil); to issue and implement a standing invitation to all special procedures (Czech Republic); to cooperate with special procedures and OHCHR by authorizing and facilitating procedures for the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture, the Special Rapporteur on the right to health, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, the Special Rapporteur on the

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