A/HRC/10/29 also decided to adopt recommendation 28, ensuring full protection of the rights of minorities. 461. Israel had also taken upon itself to promote the following items from the Council's recommendations: (a) The ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; (b) Ensuring best protection of human rights and follow-up to the implementation of international instruments; (c) Considering strengthening dialogue with the Council and its special procedures, and cooperation with all relevant United Nations special procedures and mechanisms; (d) Redoubling efforts to increase women’s representation in society; (e) Continuing and strengthening its efforts to achieve gender equality in Government and public services at all levels; to this end, the newly elected Parliament, the Knesset, had 21 women, among the largest number of women members in the history of Israel, and 3 more than in the previous Knesset; (f) Ensuring prompt and impartial investigations of allegations of ill-treatment, in accordance with its obligations under the Convention against Torture; (g) procedures; Ensuring all cases are reviewed by a court in accordance with fair (h) Granting the right to those who object to serve in the army on conscientious grounds to serve instead with a civilian body independent of the military, such as in the form of the newly established and strengthened Public Commission for National Civil Service; (i) Further addressing the remaining gaps between the various populations in Israeli society; (j) Regarding minorities, Israel intended to strengthen efforts to ensure equality in the application of the law, to counter discrimination against persons belonging to all minorities, to promote their active participation in public life, such as through additional Government resolutions to raise the percentage of the Arab minority in the civil service; (k) Following the universal periodic review process, several measures were currently being taken towards further promoting children’s rights through several preliminary means. A draft bill on the establishment of a new youth court had been prepared and was currently under review, and additional issues, such as necessary adaptations to probation officers’ reports, were being evaluated. 462. While Israel also appreciated the spirit of the recommendation to protect the children and families of migrants, it did not consider that accession to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families was required to achieve that goal, as under Israeli legislation, the rights of children and family members of migrants were already protected. 463. With respect to the recommendation calling for the acceleration of the process of bringing national legislation into compliance with the provisions of the main international instruments to which it was a party, Israel noted that, while international treaties were not directly incorporated into Israeli legislation, given its dualistic system of law, it remained committed to ensuring that domestic legislation, policies and practice complied with its international commitments. Therefore, since treaties were not self-executing and required legislative implementation, Israel carefully considered whether, and to what extent, the GE.09-17451 159