A/HRC/12/2 page 9 that the State continue efforts to promote prosperity and stability and the enjoyment of social, economic and cultural rights, and adopt systematic measures to ensure the compliance of national laws with international human rights treaties. China called for technical and financial assistance from the international community to help the country achieve the MDGs. 35. Viet Nam appreciated efforts to establish a human rights protection framework, efforts towards dialogue and national reconciliation and the ratification of many human rights instruments and measures intended to better protect vulnerable groups. It recommended (a) according the greatest priority to measures aimed at better ensuring economic and social rights, particularly by devoting more resources to programmes to combat poverty and illiteracy, rates of which remain high in the country; and (b) intensifying measures to promote the rule of law while consolidating peace and stability through dialogue and national reconciliation mechanisms. 36. Norway, noting visits by several special procedures, recommended that a standing invitation be issued to all special procedures. It asked about measures to ensure that security forces fulfil their national and international law obligations, and follow-up on urgent appeals of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders. Norway recommended that all reported human rights violations be investigated and that those responsible for such violations, including police officials and personnel within the security forces, be prosecuted and punished; that State authorities give human rights defenders legitimacy and recognition through supportive statements, and that defenders be protected in accordance with the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. It welcomed reforms promoting press freedom, recommending that necessary steps be taken to ensure that journalists are able to operate without intimidation or interference. 37. Austria cited reports of the recent killings of civilians in Sokumba by members of the Presidential Guard, also responsible for human rights violations between 2005 and 2007. Commending its replacement with other forces in the north, it noted that some members presumed responsible had not been brought to justice yet. It recommended (a) immediate investigation of all cases of grave human rights violations and ending impunity of perpetrators; and (b) implementing the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, enacting a national law on internal displacement with provisions for protecting displaced children, effectively addressing the basic needs of persons affected by internal displacement, and taking every measure to ensure the protection of civilians. Deeply concerned about the forced recruitment of children and citing reports of frequent and systematic child abductions, Austria recommended (c) taking concrete measures to abolish self-defence militias, maintain order through regular security forces and facilitate the end of forced child recruitment by all armed groups; and (d) ratifying CRC-OP-AC. 38. Canada appreciated the cooperation of the State with the Peacebuilding Commission. It recommended that, in the context of reforming the security sector, the Government review training materials used by security forces in order to include child protection as a preventive measure against recruiting children into the armed forces. Acknowledging efforts to fight impunity, it recommended the adoption within domestic legislation of a law based on the Statute of the International Criminal Court, criminalizing war crimes, the crime of genocide and crimes against humanity in the Criminal and Military Justice Codes. Alarmed at the situation of refugees