A/HRC/19/11 100.50. Continue to strengthen the achievements of health indicators, particularly related to child and maternal health, through the improvement of public health services (Bolivia); 100.51. Continue policies and programs to improve the quality of basic social services provided to citizens, such as health care and education (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea); 100.52. Continue to provide basic healthcare service for people living in rural areas and increase its focus on vulnerable groups such as women, children and minorities (Myanmar); 100.53. Continue to strengthen free education for all its people, particularly in rural areas, through “mobile schools” (Bolivia); 100.54. Continue improving the quality of public education with the aim of maintaining the excellent level of education by which the different stages of education have been characterized (Venezuela); 100.55. Continue with its policy and its good practice to provide assistance and protect the rights of the many Palestinian refugees in the country (Ecuador); 100.56. Continue its contribution to the efforts in alleviating the suffering of the vulnerable group of refugees until they return to their homeland (Algeria); 100.57. Continue to seek support from the international community and relevant United Nations agencies in meeting its challenges in hosting the refugee population (Thailand); 100.58. Enhance development efforts by focusing on the rural areas (Algeria); 100.59. Continue its efforts to halt the brain drain to foreign countries (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea); 100.60. Engage civil society in the process of implementation of UPR recommendations (Poland). 101. The following recommendations enjoy the support of Syria, which considers the recommendations as already implemented: 101.1. Amend legislation allowing the imprisonment of prisoners of conscience so as to be in compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (articles 18–22) (Belgium); 101.2. Ensure that the new legislation regulating freedom of assembly is brought in line with international human rights law, particularly the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Syria has been a party since 1969 (Sweden); 101.3. Respect its international obligations pursuant to the United Nations human rights treaties to which it is a party (Belgium); 101.4. Publish a detailed roadmap of planned human rights and political reforms (Maldives); 101.5. Allow unhindered and sustained access for humanitarian agencies and workers and restore basic services including unhindered access to hospitals (Poland); 101.6. Take measures to address the low levels of representation of women in public and political life and in decision-making (Slovenia); 17

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