A/HRC/25/71 (a) The State should establish a reasonably short time frame for eradicating illiteracy, which affects about half of the adult population. Although the reduction of inequalities, including through structural programmes that go beyond social assistance, takes time, literacy is an urgent matter because it is needed in order to live with dignity and to exercise most rights, including the right to education, which itself gives access to other rights such as to work, food, housing and health; (b) Steps overcrowding, set prisoners and, in prolonged pretrial administration; should be taken without further delay to reduce prison up hygienic sanitation services in prisons, provide food for particular, release or determine the legal status of persons in detention, on the basis of studies already prepared by the prison (c) Strengthening the rule of law, by consolidating institutions, is complex and time consuming. The technical assistance of an expert, on which the Minister Delegate and the independent expert agreed, would be a step in that direction. However, certain measures must be taken now, particularly with regard to restavèk children and population groups at risk; (d) A commission on the protection of children’s rights to deal with the problem of restavèk children, as proposed by the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery during her mission to Haiti in 2009 (A/HRC/12/21/Add.1), should be established without further delay; (e) There is also an urgent need to put in place a programme to protect population groups at risk, and, in particular, to prevent attacks against human rights defenders, LGBT persons, or persons exposed to sexual violence; (f) A national reparation commission should have been created in 1995, when recommended by the National Commission for Truth and Justice for the victims of the 1991 coup d’état, but also for the victims of other serious violations committed in the past, under the Duvalier and military regimes, as well as for the victims of acts of violence perpetrated by groups supporting or opposing President Aristide. In addition to physical reparation measures and judicial declarations of responsibility, the commission could, in the medium and long term, help to define educational activities aimed at restoring the right to memory, which should result in a substantial improvement in the human rights situation in the country; (g) A significant increase in resources is needed to guarantee the right to housing and decent living conditions for most of the displaced persons who are still in the camps set up after the earthquake of January 2010; (h) A reparation commission for cholera victims should also be established to enable damages to be recorded, corresponding benefits or compensation to be paid, the persons responsible to be identified, the epidemic to be stopped and other measures to be implemented; (i) Statelessness is a very broad subject, which is dealt with by UNHCR as the specialized agency of the United Nations. The Human Rights Council should launch an appeal to the States hosting Haitian immigrants to join UNHCR in its efforts to ensure that these people have decent living conditions and the welfare stipulated in Chapter IV of the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954, and are granted nationality under the conditions laid down in the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961; (j) Particular attention should be accorded specifically to women’s rights in all the areas mentioned above. In this connection, the independent expert has 18 GE.14-10841

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