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The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government of Myanmar respect freedom of expression and opinion and freedom of assembly and association in the context of the national elections; release all prisoners of conscience; address justice and accountability; implement the four core human rights elements, as detailed in his previous reports; and facilitate access for humanitarian assistance and continue developing cooperation with the international human rights system.

Equally relevant are the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, article 12, concerning the obligation of States to eliminate discrimination against women in health care; the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, article 25 (b), which requires that health services be “designed to minimize and prevent further disabilities, including among children and older persons”; and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 7, which prohibits torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and includes the prohibition of medical or scientific experimentation without free consent.

[...] [...] natural disasters, malicious acts directed [...]

Mr Deputy, I would like to talk more on the actual situation after 1997. If the actual situation is one which the legislature is not returned by universal suffrage or if not all its seats are returned by universal suffrage but only some of its seats are returned by universal suffrage, and if the executive authorities do not take some matching actions, then a difficult problem will appear, that is, the executive authorities may have to rely on some seats returned from a minority of people to sustain its rule.

While the Government publicly claimed to listen to southern grievances, its security forces had responded to largely peaceful protests with a crackdown and attacked independent media and outspoken southern academics and students.

During their visit, the Working Group found that the challenges faced by people of African descent in Portugal related mainly to their lack of recognition as a specific group in the national policy and legal framework; the lack of recognition of their positive contribution throughout history to the construction and development of the country; the lack of qualitative and quantitative disaggregated data by racial or ethnic origin; the existence of a circle of poverty, unequal access to education, public services, employment, as well as discrimination in the administration and functioning of the justice system; existence of racial profiling and police violence; underrepresentation in political and institutional decision-making processes, as well as the lack of special measures or affirmative action policies in Portugal for people of African descent or other minorities.

[...] [...] rehabilitation of degraded water [...] [...]