A/HRC/8/49 Page 17 24. To continue and strengthen its efforts to avoid ill-treatment of prisoners, while ensuring that all cases of abuse and excessive use of force by authorities be investigated and appropriate measures be taken (Denmark); 25. To take further action to improve living conditions in places of detention (Ireland, Turkey); 26. To consider urgently improvements to conditions for psychiatric patients (United Kingdom) and to enact further measures to ensure adequate provision of mental health care (Ireland); 27. To undertake further measures to improve sexual and reproductive health especially for marginalized groups (United Kingdom); 28. To apply the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur on the right to health on obstacles to access to health services by marginal populations, and to address this problem through educational programmes on diversity, and to train professionals in the health sectors (Guatemala); 29. To develop a national strategy for human rights education in the school system in accordance with the Plan of Action 2005-2009 of the World Programme for Human Rights Education, including the review and revision of curricula and textbooks, the training of teachers, and the practice of human rights in the school community (Italy); 30. To accelerate the property restitution process (Canada) and to make vigorous efforts to work with the Orthodox Church on the issue of property returns, including for it to abide by judicial rulings (United States). 59. These recommendations will be examined by Romania, which will provide responses in due time. The response of Romania will be included in the outcome report to be adopted by the Human Rights Council at its eighth session. 60. All conclusions and/or recommendations contained in the present report reflect the position of the submitting State(s) and /or the State under review thereon. They should not be construed as endorsed by the Working Group as a whole. III. VOLUNTARY COMMITMENTS OF THE STATE UNDER REVIEW 61. Reference is made to the commitments made by Romania to launch a National Plan of Action for Human Rights, as announced by the Head of Delegation in the introductory statement (see paragraph 6 above).

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