A/HRC/42/2 427. Save the Children International welcomed steps taken by the Government to realize the rights of children. It called on the Government to develop an action plan to involve relevant ministries and ensure space for civil society to engage in monitoring the implementation of universal periodic review recommendations. It encouraged the Government to prioritize implementing and disseminating the Law No. 18/2017 on Child Rights and Protection; developing tailored policy responses for children affected by bloodfeuds; ensuring that child protection services are in place and accessible for marginalized and excluded children; and allocating sufficient budget to establish the representation of the Office of the Ombudsman representation in all regions of Albania. 428. The Women’s Human Rights International Association congratulated Albania for hosting, since 2016, approximately 3,000 political refugees, members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization (PMOI) through a multilateral agreement. It welcomed that Albania provided medical care and facilitated their settlement. It urged the Human Rights Council and its members to stand in solidarity with Albania. 429. Action Canada for Population and Development noted that specific obstacles to the realization of the right to health and to sexual and reproductive health services for vulnerable groups persisted in Albania. It welcomed therefore the acceptance by Albania of recommendations related to ensuring non-discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity, age and HIV status, for individuals accessing healthcare services, as well as a recommendation calling for sexuality education as part of increasing access to healthcare and prevention programme. It urged Albania to ensure that comprehensive sexuality education extends to children and young people based in non-formal or out-ofschool settings. 430. Associazione Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII noted that blood feuds, under the ancient Kanun code, were still alive in northern Albania. Thus, it recommended that the Government support mediation between families who are victims of this phenomenon and create a national reconciliation process through restorative justice and mediation counselling. It also urged the Government to take further measures to prevent and tackle domestic violence, forced marriage of children and extrajudicial execution due to blood feuds as well as to ensure full implementation of the Action Plan on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 431. Campagne internationale pour l’abolition des armes nucléaires regretted that Albania’s stated commitment to the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons had not been accompanied by its support for the United Nations General Assembly resolution in 2016 that established the mandate for nations to negotiate the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It called upon Albania to complete its commitment to protect human rights threatened by nuclear weapons, by signing and ratifying the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as a matter of international urgency. 432. International-Lawyers.org commended the improvements made by Albania in the areas of the rights of both women and children, including greater representation in government, mothers’ right to return to work after maternity leave and reversing the burden of proof in sexual harassment cases. It noted that, despite these advancements, Roma and Egyptian women and children remained two vulnerable groups. It noted that improving access to education for women would increase school enrolment and completion, delay marriage, and provide job opportunities and that access to birth control would delay the first childbirth resulting in better health outcomes. Nutrition and health services would result in improved weight, less infections and decreased mortality among children. 433. The United Towns Agency for North-South Cooperation noted the 2017 Law on the Protection of National Minorities as a positive step, but stated that Albania had not established an action plan to address issues regarding the representation of minorities in local government units. It stated that there were no records of former and newly recognized 71