A/HRC/37/14 10. The Home Grown School Feeding Programme was currently supporting 1,052,760 learners in 38 districts and preparations had been made to extend it to 1,500,000 learners in 55 districts in January 2018. 11. With regard to the implementation of supported recommendations from the second review, Zambia had amended the Constitution and enacted the Persons with Disabilities Act No. 6 of 2012, the Higher Education Act No. 4 of 2013, the Gender Equity and Equality Act No. 22 of 2015, the Public Protector Act No. 15 of 2016, the Passports Act No. 28 of 2016 and the Refugees Act No. 1 of 2017. It had also enacted the Ratification of International Agreements Act No. 34 of 2016, which provided for the ratification and domestication of international agreements. 12. Zambia had put in place appropriate legal, administrative and policy measures for the advancement of women, such as the inclusion of progressive clauses in the Constitution and the enactment of enabling legislation that had domesticated the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and relevant regional instruments. In addition, the National Gender Policy had been adopted and gender focal points had been introduced in all ministries, provinces and spending agencies. 13. Since the previous review, measures had been put in place to strengthen public accountability and combat corruption, including by reinstating the offence of abuse of office in the Anti-Corruption Act No. 3 of 2012, setting up integrity committees within public institutions, initiating the decentralization of the Office of the Public Protector, and strengthening the Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly. The National Prosecution Authority had been decentralized, which had rendered the prosecution process more efficient. Moreover, ethics, governance and human rights education had been incorporated into the school curriculum. 14. All allegations of attacks against individuals because of their sexual orientation or gender identity were investigated without discrimination. 15. Despite having retained the death penalty on its statue books, Zambia was a de facto abolitionist State. 16. Torture was prohibited under the Constitution. An anti-torture bill and a correctional services bill that addressed torture in correctional facilities were before the National Assembly. 17. During the period under review, a total of four correctional facilities with capacity for over 1,050 inmates had been built. Furthermore, two additional correctional facilities each with a capacity of 2,000 inmates were currently under construction. Efforts were also being made to renovate existing correctional facilities. Regular inspections were carried out to monitor inmates’ access to food and the Correctional Services now employed staff who specialized in environmental health and nutrition. The penal system had been transformed from punitive to correctional. 18. The Anti-Human Trafficking Act of 2008 was being implemented through, inter alia, the National Policy to Combat Human Trafficking. Zambia had an outstanding relationship with the United Nations system on the implementation of that legislation. 19. Measures had been put in place to increase the coverage of birth registration, including by decentralizing the birth registration services and holding nationwide awareness-raising campaigns. 20. In order to promote employment and uphold workers’ rights, policies such as the National Employment and Labour Market Policy and the Zambia Decent Work Country Programme (2013–2016) had been reviewed and reformulated. In addition, the legislative framework on the protection of workers’ and employers’ rights had been strengthened through the amendment of the Employment Act and the Minimum Wages and Conditions of Employment Act. 21. HIV/AIDS was being combated through efforts that included revising the National HIV and AIDS Strategic Framework 2014–2016, launching a campaign for routine HIV testing, and introducing counselling and treatment in all public health institutions in response to the Government’s aim to eliminate HIV/AIDS from Zambia by 2030. The 3

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