A/HRC/17/5 108.33. Ensure that education is free and compulsory, with special focus on the enrolment of girls in schools (Turkey); 108.34. Continue pursuing appropriate, efficient, inclusive educational policies to provide for free and compulsory education to all segments of its society, including marginalized, disadvantaged - and thus most vulnerable - groups (Slovakia); 108.35. Pay special attention to helping Dalit children, girls, and children belonging to ethnic minorities to complete their education cycle, and to ensure their employment opportunities after education in order to enable them to claim their rights and work as agents of change for their communities (Finland); 108.36. Ensure that children of internally displaced persons, refugees, asylumseekers and their families enjoy the right to health, education and birth registration without discrimination (Thailand). 109. The recommendations below did not enjoy the support of Nepal: 109.1. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) (Switzerland);Accede to and implement OP-CAT (New Zealand); 109.2. Ratify the pending principle international human rights treaties, such as the Rome Statute, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED) and OP-CAT (Chile); 109.3. Become a party to OP-CAT (Maldives) and designate a national preventive mechanism, to safeguard the rights of detainees and to prevent any acts of torture (Maldives); 109.4. Sign and ratify the Optional Protocol of the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the OP-CAT as well as the CED (Spain); 109.5. Consider the possibility of signing and ratifying CED (Argentina); ratify and implement the CED (Sweden); 109.6. Sign and ratify the Palermo Protocol (Austria); 109.7. Accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, as well as its Protocol and take all necessary measures so the fundamental rights of refugees residing in the country are protected (Switzerland); consider the possibility of acceding to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, in the spirit of the tradition in Nepal of hosting refugees (Algeria); reinforce its legal framework by adhering to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol (Moldova); ratify the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (Slovenia);Consider acceding to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (Netherlands); adopt national legislation pertaining to refugees that includes the rights of refugees and asylum seekers (Netherlands). 109.8. Protect vulnerable refugee populations by allowing for registration of the refugee population in Nepal and by refraining from forcibly returning Tibetan asylum-seekers to China (United States of America). 109.9. Promote other durable solutions than resettlement in third countries for the refugees in eastern Nepal in close cooperation with UNHCR and other relevant international organizations (Netherlands); 22

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