A/HRC/4/77 page 6 13. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women made reference to indigenous peoples in its concluding observations to Australia, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, the Philippines, Thailand and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of). The Committee expressed concerns about discrimination against indigenous women and pointed out the particular prevalence of domestic violence and sexual assaults against indigenous women, high rates of poverty, lack of access to adequate health services and education, and problems of access to justice. The Committee stressed the need to adopt measures to accelerate the improvement of the conditions of indigenous women in all spheres of life. It further recommended that priority attention be accorded to the effective enforcement and monitoring of legislation on domestic violence and to ensuring that women, including indigenous women, have access to immediate means of protection. The Committee stressed the underrepresentation of indigenous women in political and public life and recommended that the number of indigenous women in decision-making positions in society be increased. 14. The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families in its comments to Mexico noted the particular situation of indigenous migrants and women migrants, who suffer from dual discrimination in the enjoyment of their economic, social and cultural rights, and are more vulnerable to violations and abuse than other groups. II. SPECIAL PROCEDURES 15. The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people will present to the Council a thematic report reviewing and evaluating the principal developments affecting indigenous peoples in the course of his six-year mandate. He will also present reports of country missions to Ecuador and Kenya and a study on good practice in relation to the follow-up to his recommendations. The reports of the Special Rapporteur are contained in documents A/HRC/4/32 and Add.1-4. As is pointed out by the Special Rapporteur in his report, one of the impacts of establishing a special procedure on indigenous peoples has been to stimulate awareness of indigenous issues among other human rights mechanisms and consequently increased attention in their thematic and country reports. 16. Indigenous issues have been taken up by other special procedure mandate holders including the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living; the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; the Special Rapporteur on the right to education; the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; the Special Rapporteur on the right to food; the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers; the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism; the Special Rapporteur on the adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights; the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences; the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression; the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders; the Representative of the