A/HRC/31/27 Rights-Based Approaches to Programming (hrbaportal.org). The Portal brings together a wide range of resources designed to assist practitioners working at the country level to integrate human rights-based approaches into their programming work. IV. Human rights treaty bodies 30. Human rights treaty bodies addressed minority issues throughout the period under review. A. Concluding observations 31. The Human Rights Committee, at its 113th session, adopted its concluding observations on Croatia (CCPR/C/HRV/CO/3) and the Russian Federation (CCPR/C/RUS/CO/7). With regard to Croatia, the Committee expressed concern about the practice of ethnic profiling by law enforcement officials targeting certain ethnic minorities, particularly Roma, and about the continued reports of hate attacks against members of ethnic minority groups, particularly Roma and Serbs. With regard to the Russian Federation, the Committee recommended that the State party should strengthen its efforts to combat all acts of racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, including in political discourse and in mass media. 32. At its 114th session, the Committee adopted concluding observations on France (CCPR/C/FRA/CO/5), Spain (CCPR/C/ESP/CO/6), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (CCPR/C/GBR/CO/7) and Uzbekistan (CCPR/C/UZB/CO/4). In the case of France, the Committee recommended that the State party should put an end to forced evictions of Roma migrants. Regarding Spain, it expressed concern at the practice of police checks based on racial and ethnic profiling against certain ethnic minorities, in particular Roma. With regard to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Committee noted a recent increase in the number of hate incidents and crimes on the basis of race, nationality or religion, and expressed concern about the prevalence in the media and on the Internet of racist and xenophobic expressions that may amount to incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence. In the case of Uzbekistan, the Committee recommended that the State party should bring its legislation into conformity with article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, including through the decriminalization of proselytism and other missionary activities. It should also investigate all acts of interference with the freedom of religion of independent Muslims, Christians and other minority religions practising their religion outside registered structures. 33. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, at its fifty-fourth session, adopted its concluding observations on Tajikistan (E/C.12/TJK/CO/2-3). The Committee expressed concern at the decreasing number of classes provided in the languages of ethnic minorities and of students attending schools where the teaching is given in the languages of ethnic minorities. At its fifty-fifth session, the Committee adopted its concluding observations on Ireland (E/C.12/IRL/CO/3) and Kyrgyzstan (E/C.12/KGZ/CO/2-3). It recommended that Ireland should expedite its efforts to give legal recognition to Travellers as an ethnic minority and to include them as an ethnic minority in anti-discrimination legislation. With regard to Kyrgyzstan, the Committee recommended that the State party should allocate specific budgetary resources to promote the cultural diversity of ethnic minorities, allow mother tongue education and minority language press, and enable all groups to express and develop their culture, language, traditions and customs. 34. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, at its sixtieth session, adopted its concluding observations on Denmark (CEDAW/C/DNK/CO/8). It 7

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