A/HRC/24/8 82.61. Increase the initiatives to guarantee access for all to drinking water and sanitation (Spain); 82.62. Move forward, at the earliest possible opportunity, with the adoption of the draft Water Act to establish a legal framework and put in place water resources and sanitation infrastructure, including adequate collection, storage and distribution mechanisms to alleviate the challenges of scarcity and to ensure that all its citizen’s right to safe drinking water and sanitation are safeguarded (Maldives); 82.63. Adopt and implement a national water strategy and plan of action covering the entire population, and make access to water and sanitation affordable to all (Slovenia); 82.64. Include, among the priorities of the Second National Strategic Development Plan, the access to sanitation along with access to drinking water which is already contained (Spain); 82.65. Improve access to education for children living in rural areas and adopt further measures, special laws and awareness programs to promote gender equality in education (Hungary); 82.66. Continue efforts to guarantee the full inclusion of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society (Costa Rica); 82.67. Continue to implement its NAPA to address the impacts of climate change, with assistance from UNPD, the Global Environment Fund and other relevant international stakeholders (Singapore); 82.68. Formulate, in cooperation with regional and United Nations mechanisms, a plan for the management and mitigation of natural disasters which includes potential mass displacements of the population (Mexico). 83. The following recommendations will be examined by Tuvalu which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the 24 th session of the Human Rights Council in September 2013: 83.1. Consider the possibility of amending the National Constitution to include a safeguard against statelessness, which establishes the acquisition of Tuvaluan nationality for children born in the territory who otherwise would be stateless (Uruguay); 83.2. Include legislative safeguard against statelessness with regards to children born in its territory, who would otherwise be stateless, to acquire Tuvaluan nationality (Slovakia). 84. The recommendations below did not enjoy the support of Tuvalu: 84.1 Become party to the UN core human rights treaties and continue its efforts towards this aim (Montenegro); 84.2. Step up its recent efforts and ratify the core human rights treaties and other main relevant international instruments (Germany); 84.3. Accede to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as a priority (Maldives); 84.4. Accede to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its optional protocols (Estonia); 17

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