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the Human Rights and Citizenship, CNDHC, with main attribution to
implementation of PNADHC.
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The National Commission for Human Rights and Citizenship is in action since 2005, and it
holds a financial, administrative and budgeting autonomy. Its duty is to promote awareness
and education of human rights in Cape Verde. Promote studies in matters of human rights,
give advice to the government; promote investigations and assist in cases related to human
rights and international humanitarian rights.
This institution, incorporates "Paris Principles", step by step, it has been working for its
affirmation while serious and privileged organism by gathering members in representation of
civil society and governmental entities, seeking to materialize many actions in this path.
The successive Governments have been working to fulfil main social intervention areas needy
of specific treatment, aiming to improve the level of completion and effectiveness of rights of
specific social groups. It is with this spirit that there is in place institutions geared to work
with vulnerable groups such as women and children, and other institutions like the ones in
sectors such as agriculture, labour, education where the subject of human rights should be
present even if crosswise in the above described politics.
Regarding child rights, the Cape-verdean Child and Adolescent Institute holds now days an
important role in the harmonized and integral development of children with geographical
coverage in main urban centres of the country trying to respond to isolated regions and
villages.
Other important institution is the Institution for the Equality and Fairness of Gender working
specifically over issues of genre and empowerment of women. This organism have been
seeking to work above all with institutions of the organized civil society for a combined
promotion of interventions to achieve in an effective way the groups that are harder to get to
by governmental programs.
The fight against poverty demands a special attention of the government in order to
overcome it. As we are aware, poverty is one of the obstacles for the execution of human
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