A/HRC/8/45 Page 6 the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRMW), noting that Ukraine is one of the sender, transit and receiver countries of migrant workers. 17. Italy noted that problems of trafficking seem to persist and invited the Ukrainian representative to further elaborate on this. Welcoming efforts undertaken to ensure the protection of the rights of the child, including legislative measures and the establishment of the office of Children’s Ombudsman, Italy recommend to Ukraine to continue to assess effectively the protection of the rights of the child, including child trafficking, the fight against child prostitution and pornography and child labour. With reference to concerns expressed by the Committee against Torture (CAT) in 2007 about allegations of torture and ill-treatments committed by law enforcement personnel, Italy recommended, as did CAT and the Human Rights Committee, to ensure the safety and proper treatment of all persons held in custody by the police and to consider the establishment of an independent police complaints mechanism. Finally, Italy recommended developing a national strategy for human rights education in the school system in accordance with the Plan of Action 2005-2009 of the World Programme for Human Rights Education, including the review and revision of curricula and textbooks, the training of teachers and the practice of human rights in the school community. 18. Tunisia stated that the institution of the UPCHR would obviously be strengthened through the creation of offices in all regions in order to bring the procedure closer to the citizens. It inquired about the nature of the decisions taken by the UPCHR, about their binding nature and their implementation. 19. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland asked what steps are planned to increase the independence of the judiciary and what further measures are planned to tackle corruption in the judiciary and across the executive. The United Kingdom recommended undertaking further work in these areas. It welcomed recent steps taken to pay attention to the increase in racist attacks, but noted an apparent reluctance among some officials to recognize the problem and in particular to fail to distinguish between racists and hooligans. The United Kingdom urged the Government to respond to such instances, and asked what the Government plans to do to ensure that public and official awareness of the need to tackle racism is improved. The United Kingdom recommended that the Government mainstream tackling racism throughout its departments and in its policy-making. It welcomed sentencing of police officers found guilty for the murder of a journalist Georgiy Gongadze but noted that the case is not yet closed on who ordered the murder. It welcomed the Ombudsman’s recent admission that torture persists and recommended further progress on the CAT recommendation to set up an independent oversight mechanism for investigating torture. The United Kingdom welcomed the steps taken by the Ministry of Interior to establish a mechanism to monitor places of detention. 20. The Russian Federation noted the situation of the Russian-speaking population and recommended: (a) to ensure full and effective compliance of national legislation and law enforcement practices, particularly in the areas of education and mass media with the obligation of article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the obligations that derive from Ukraine being party to other international legal instruments, including on the protection of national minorities; (b) to ensure, in areas of compact residence of linguistic minorities, conditions for the unhindered use of the native language and to receive education in the mother tongue; (c) and given that Russian is the mother tongue of a significant proportion of Ukraine’s population, to consider assigning the Russian language the status of second national language. It also recommended that a programme be developed to effectively improve the situation of persons in deprivation of liberty, including measures that would lead to a reduction of mortality rates among prisoners.