A/HRC/15/5 96.45. Undertake more effective measures to ensure the accessibility of crucial public services, such as education and healthcare, to the general population, particularly those living in rural areas (Malaysia); 96.46. Continue to increase investment in education to endeavour to raise the level of education for the whole nation in order to meet the requirements for social and economic development (China); 96.47. Continue activities to increase access for children to education, promote maternal and infant health, and eradicate trafficking in persons (Belarus); 96.48. Seek to introduce human rights sensitization in school and university curriculums (Qatar); 96.49. Enhance cooperation at the regional and international levels with relevant stakeholders with a view to achieving relevant Millennium Development Goals, related to poverty eradication, nutrition, sanitation and environmental sustainability (Malaysia); 96.50. Seek further technical assistance from relevant international organizations to ensure continual success on the path towards achieving human rights and equal access to education, health, employment and livelihood for all (Maldives); 96.51. Seek the technical assistance of the international community, in light of the present stage of development in Laos, in order to provide it with needed assistance in strengthening the capacity of its national mechanisms responsible for preparing periodic reports for treaty bodies, and in training its law enforcement officials, judges and police officers in the area of human rights (Egypt); 96.52. Further enhance and strengthen the work of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Human Rights Commission to effectively promote and protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the peoples of ASEAN (Indonesia); 96.53. Involve civil society, including human rights non-governmental organizations, in the follow-up to this review (United Kingdom). 97. The following recommendations enjoy the support of Laos, which considers that they are already implemented or in the process of implementation: 97.1. Strengthen its commitment to ensuring that the fundamental rights of minorities are better respected (Switzerland); 97.2. Allow privately owned media outlets to be established (New Zealand); 97.3. Remove all Internet monitoring and control facilities restricting the use of the Internet (Netherlands). 98. The following recommendations will be examined by Laos, which will provide responses in due course, but no later than the fifteenth session of the Human Rights Council, in September 2010: 98.1. Ratify the two optional protocols to the ICCPR (Canada, Luxembourg, Spain); 98.2. Accede to and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at the abolition of the death penalty (Australia, Slovenia); 18

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