A/HRC/36/22 the magistrates to travel along the river so they could witness, understand and experience the dimensions of the destruction caused by large-scale gold mining activities using toxic elements, such as mercury and heavy-duty machinery, in addition to forest destruction. 73. In March 2016, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Tunisia, together with the Ministry in charge of human rights, organized two national consultations where civil society organizations working on the rights of the Amazigh had the opportunity to engage in a discussion with national authorities. They addressed concerns related to cultural rights, including the right to learn and use the Tamazight language and to give children Amazigh names, which is not allowed currently under Tunisian law. 74. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Guatemala monitored the troubling case of 41 girls, including indigenous girls, who died following a fire in the Hogar Seguro de la Virgen de Asunción, having been locked in a room as a disciplinary measure. The girls were living in the home under the protection of the State. The Office made recommendations regarding the need to develop culturally appropriate and locally based responses to child protection, in coordination with indigenous families and communities. 75. The Human Rights Committee recommended that Ecuador take the necessary steps to ensure that proper consultations are held with indigenous communes, communities, peoples and nationalities with a view: (a) to obtaining their free, prior and informed consent concerning any measure that might have a substantial impact on their way of life and their culture; (b) to expediting the adoption of the bill on consultation with them; (c) to ensuring that they are properly consulted during that process; and, in particular, (d) to ensuring that no extractive or any other activities are conducted that may place the lives and livelihoods of indigenous peoples living in isolation in a more vulnerable situation. 76. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia contributed to making a film 4 in which the Bora and Miraña peoples of the Amazon explained how gold mining using mercury and cyanide is affecting their lands and territories, with debilitating effects on their health. The film also illustrated how their ancestral culture and ways of life are threatened by these activities. Furthermore, following an agreement reached by the mesa amazónica, a coordination space between the government of the department of Amazonas and indigenous authorities in which OHCHR acts as a guarantor, a group of traditional authorities is building their own health calendars and epidemiology studies according to their traditional knowledge. 77. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Guatemala provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Health to implement an intercultural, comprehensive and inclusive health-care model. Through its Maya Programme, the Office also supported the recognition of the work of indigenous midwives. The Office is also working with State institutions to implement a 2016 judgment of the Constitutional Court ordering the Ministry of Education to implement a bilingual and intercultural education programme in La Antigua Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, in the department of Sololá. 78. The Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recommended that Colombia allocate adequate resources to the health sector and redouble its efforts to ensure accessibility, availability, affordability and quality of health care, paying particular attention to the needs of indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples through such action as the development and implementation of intercultural health service plans that take account of the geographical characteristics of rural areas and provide for the active participation of indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples. The Committee also recommended that Colombia take the necessary steps to ensure that the policies of ethnic education and intercultural education fulfil the objective of promoting and preserving the cultural identity of indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples. 4 12 Available from www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1XKVDAaOCM.

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