A/HRC/18/18 79.59. Review its legal measures and, if necessary, request the necessary technical assistance so as to ensure that boys and girls of all regions of the country have access to free and compulsory primary education (Mexico); 79.60. Ensure that education is accessible to all children, including by providing the educational system with necessary resources (Slovakia); 79.61. Consider the possibility of ensuring free and compulsory education, at least at the primary level (Algeria); 79.62. Guarantee universal basic education, in accordance with the international human rights treaties it has ratified, and ensure that primary education is compulsory and free for all (Indonesia); 79.63. Ensure compulsory, free and accessible primary education for all. Enhance also the availability and accessibility of secondary and higher education and close the gender gap at all levels of education (Slovenia); 79.64. Ensure that primary education is free and compulsory and prioritize the accessibility of secondary education, making it progressively free in accordance with the new Universal Plan on Basic Education (Spain); 79.65. Adopt further measures to ensure universal primary education, free of charge (Brazil); 79.66. Continue working towards the elimination of the user-pay policy for education with the aim of providing free primary education, as per Millennium Development Goal 2 (South Africa); 79.67. Work closely with its citizens, especially the indigenous population, in order to promote environmental protection (Norway); 79.68. Stop the increasing deforestation and indiscriminate exploitation of minerals since, on one hand, this limits the right of indigenous peoples to live in their traditional agricultural lands and, on the other hand, it contributes enormously to the ecosystem’s imbalance and accelerates climate change with the negative consequences it brings (Holy See); 79.69. Review the 2010 amendment to the Environment Act in order to ensure consistency with the objectives of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Norway). 80. The recommendations below did not enjoy the support of Papua New Guinea: 80.1. Continue to suspend capital punishment by putting in place, as a first step, a de jure moratorium against executions and eventually abolishing the death penalty (Switzerland); 80.2. Confirm the de facto moratorium on the death penalty by definitively and de jure abolishing the death penalty in all circumstances (France). 81. All conclusions and/or recommendations contained in the present report reflect the position of the submitting State(s) and/or the State under review. They should not be construed as endorsed by the Working Group as a whole. 20

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