A/HRC/8/38 Page 4 human rights made in the Office, such as a new Policy Plan on Penal Prosecution and Victimology, and a General Instruction including directives for the treatment of crimes against sexual liberty. The Public Prosecutor’s Office will assist in the implementation of laws like the Law against Organized Delinquency. 10. The Interior Ministry has continued with the equipment, professionalization and training of the National Civil Police, along with a process of internal vetting, to achieve institutional efficiency and eradicate corruption and infiltration of organized crime and drug trafficking into State structures. The Government highlighted the Inter-institutional Coordinator for the Strengthening of the Justice System, an organ composed of the Judicial Organ, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Institute for Public Penal Defence and the Interior Ministry, which coordinates efforts and promotes actions to achieve efficiency, transparency and credibility in the administration of justice. The Government also hoped that the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) sponsored by the United Nations would contribute to the above-mentioned efforts, by investigating the actions, structures and functioning of illegal and clandestine groups, and advising the State on how to dismantle them. The CICIG is already working with the Public Prosecutor’s Office and other national bodies on this. Recently enacted laws, creating the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF), the Penitentiary System Law, the Framework Law of the National Security System, and the Law on Femicide and other Forms of Violence against Women, were cited as legislative milestones in the protection of human rights. 11. An Analysis Unit on Attacks against Human Rights Defenders, within the Interior Ministry, has been created to deal with allegations and coordinate an effective response with the Public Prosecutor’s Office and other organs. 12. The Government is pursuing with Congress the ratification of the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, and a law that would establish a National Commission to Find the Disappeared. 13. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has also created a department on human and indigenous rights to follow up on international commitments assumed by the State, as well as high-level commissions on indigenous rights, and on human rights. The Government highlighted the Presidential Commission against Discrimination and Racism against Indigenous Peoples (CODISRA) and the Institute for the Defence of Indigenous Women (DEMI). It is promoting the creation of a Presidential Secretariat on Indigenous Peoples to pursue public policies, plans, programmes and projects in this area. It is also seeking approval from Congress to recognize the competence of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (article 14). 14. The National Policy and Plan of Action on Disabilities was approved by decree, with the purpose of: preventing factors which could cause disabilities; provide rehabilitation services; facilitate access to education, training and employment; provide comfortable and safe access to physical spaces, transportation and information sources, recreation, sports and culture, and other activities. The Government has also initiated a process for Congress to approve the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. 15. As rising international gas and food prices have reduced the capacity of the most vulnerable groups to access daily staples, the Government has established a Solidarity Programme to face the Economic and Social Emergency, investing US$195 million on: the production of grains; social development programmes; projects to facilitate access to land; conditioned transfers, a funding programme to reduce school desertion, chronic malnutrition, and child labour; a housing programme; and a programme to support small and medium enterprises. Guatemala has cosponsored a petition to hold a special session on the world food crisis on 23 May 2008.