A/HRC/23/5 13. As to the strengthening of the accountability of magistrates, a new law on the matter had entered into force in January 2012. The law amended the scheme of disciplinary offences, increased sanctions, and strengthened the independence and the operational capacity of the Judicial Inspection of the Superior Council of Magistracy. Measures had also been taken for improving the transparency and objectivity of the procedure for the promotion of judges to the High Court of Cassation and Justice. Thus, the relevant law was already in force following its adoption by the Parliament in December 2011. 14. The delegation highlighted that Romania was the first European country to create a National Integrity Agency (NIA), which had been operational since 2007. The Agency was an independent, operational institution, competent to control and verify declared assets of public officials and cases of conflict of interest. Effective institutions were in place to prevent and combat high-level corruption; some of those were novelties at the European level or had achieved such significant results that they had become best practices for other countries (for example, NIA and the National Anti-corruption Directorate). 15. The National Anti-corruption Directorate had consistent and positive results, functioning as a specialized and independent structure competent to investigate high-level corruption cases. During the previous five years, over 90 per cent of its indictments had led to convictions and 90 per cent of investigations had been finalized in under 1.5 years. That activity continued to include significant numbers of senior politicians and officials. Regarding the prevention of and fight against local-level corruption and corruption in vulnerable areas, the National Anti-corruption Strategy, its corresponding action plan and the inventory of preventive measures had been approved by the Government in March 2012. The new Government assumed the Strategy in May 2012 and in June the Parliament unanimously endorsed the Strategy through a political declaration; implementation was ongoing. 16. The delegation highlighted the major role of media in promoting a culture of tolerance and mutual understanding. From this perspective, media awareness-raising programmes, such as “Colourful, but colour-blind”, “Dosta, overcome prejudices, learn to know Roma people”, and “Voices of the Roma community in society” had increased awareness on that matter. 17. Regarding the situation of sexual minorities, the delegation reported that the legislation provided for punishment for any form of discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation. The main form of public expression of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community was the GayFest, organized annually in March. Due to the involvement of the public authorities that ensured the public order and close cooperation with the non-governmental organization ACCEPT, which was the main promoter of LGBT rights in Romania, the number of incidents during the event had significantly reduced to the extent that in the past two years, the event had taken place without any incident. 18. The delegation stated that Romania had constantly developed policies and implemented specific measures aimed at improving every citizen’s health and access to health care, especially for vulnerable groups. Although there was no strategy implemented at the moment in the field of sexual and reproductive health, the Ministry of Health had adopted targeted measures that had led to a gradual decrease in the abortion mortality rate. 19. On the issue of the rights of the child, the delegation stated that the top objectives of the 2008–2013 national strategy on children rights’ protection and its plan of action was to guarantee the improvement of the situation of children in a special protection system, further develop community services and ensure equal treatment for all children. 20. With regard to combating human trafficking, the National Strategy against Trafficking in Persons for 2012–2016 set up the framework of action for combating the phenomenon. The current National Strategy put forward a number of concrete measures 5