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133.98 Strengthen measures to ensure equality of rights for indigenous
peoples, including the right to health, education and adequate housing
(Colombia);
133.99 Promote education for all, especially for indigenous and tribal children,
as well as step up efforts to preserve languages of the indigenous communities
(Philippines);
133.100 Respect and ensure the rights of indigenous people related to the
preservation of their land, culture and resources (Canada);
133.101 Ensure that the judgements of the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights regarding the Moiwana Community and Saramaka people are swiftly
and completely implemented (Germany);
133.102 Adopt measures to reduce the negative impact of mining on the
environment and the rights of indigenous peoples and their lands, in conformity
with international standards (Costa Rica).
134. The following enjoy the support of Suriname, which considers that they are
already implemented:
134.1 Sign and ratify the core international instruments, including
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (Sierra Leone);
134.2 Continue the efforts of reforming the justice sector, in order to enhance
the independence of the judiciary and facilitate access to justice to everyone
(Egypt);
134.3 Adequately resource its judicial system, and take steps to ensure the
independence of the judiciary (Australia).
135. The following recommendations will be examined by Suriname which will
provide responses in due time, but no later than the thirty-third session of the Human
Rights Council in September 2016:
135.1 Ratify international human rights instruments, particularly the
Convention against Torture and other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment and its Optional Protocol; the International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance; the Optional Protocol
on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women as well as the ILO Convention 169 concerning Indigenous and Tribal
Peoples in Independent Countries (Brazil);
135.2 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Costa Rica) (Portugal);
135.3 Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Italy);
135.4 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Chile) (Paraguay) (Uruguay);
135.5 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and
other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (Costa Rica) (Honduras);
135.6 Ratify promptly the Optional Protocol to the Convention against
Torture and other Cruel, inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(Guatemala);
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