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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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