Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Initial Report of the Central African Republic Take the necessary steps towards the ratification of the Protocols to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women and on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights as well as the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child; Carry out the necessary reforms to guarantee rapid and sustainable human development, favorable to the full enjoyment of human rights in CAR; Carry out reforms to strengthen judicial assistance and the independence of the judiciary; Improve the living conditions in the prisons; Put in place a prison for juvenile offenders; Facilitate access to education especially for girls and their stay in school; Improve the socio-economic conditions of rural women and the participation of women in the decision making process; Transmit to the Secretariat the written responses to the questions posed by the African Commission during the presentation of the Report; Inform the African Commission, in its next Periodic Report, of the steps it has taken to address the areas of concern, as well as how it has implemented the recommendations in this Concluding Observations. Adopted at the 39th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human Peoples’ Rights held from 11 to 25 May 2006, Banjul, The Gambia 6|Page 39th Ordinary Session of the ACHPR