A/HRC/41/44/Add.1 75. The Independent Expert makes the following recommendations: (a) The authorities should strengthen their efforts with regard to the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda through all laws, policies, regulations, plans of action, programmes and partnership agreements, in order to obtain a fair and transparent assessment and review; (b) The Government should sign and ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure. It should also take into consideration, in addition to the outcome of the universal periodic review, the concluding observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights when negotiating partnership frameworks; (c) All Swedish-based business companies and funds should integrate the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights into their day-to-day operations and in activities related to the advancement of international solidarity. In this regard, the Independent Expert also commends the commitment of Sweden to corporate social responsibility and its creation and implementation of the Global Deal initiative, and urges it to continue to strengthen its commitment to international solidarity in this area beyond the corporate social responsibility framework; (d) With regard to the arms trade, the implementation of the newly adopted export control regulatory framework regulating this trade should be systematically monitored and evaluated to ensure its effectiveness in practice in conforming with the Government’s human rights-based approach to foreign relations. 76. With regard to international cooperation and development aid in compliance with human rights-based international solidarity, the Government and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency should strive to reinforce bilateral and multilateral partnerships with all relevant actors (e.g., civil society organizations, business, social partners and international and regional organizations) in this area, while strengthening their commitment to a human rights-based approach in all their relationships. 77. While the Independent Expert acknowledges the considerable efforts made by Sweden in the wake of the 2015 migration crisis in Europe, in the absence of a joint European Union response, the Government should ensure that any remaining aspects of the temporary measures adopted in 2015 and implemented in 2016 are removed, at the very least by the end of the three-year period in 2019. 78. The Independent Expert also recommends that: (a) Funding for in-country refugees be budgeted and accounted for separately from the foreign aid budget; (b) Increased efforts be made to ease the process of family reunification for persons granted refugee status in Sweden; (c) The forced return of migrants be conducted in compliance with international refugee and human rights protection requirements, and the principle of international solidarity. The Government should refrain from forcibly returning people to war-torn countries, where they may face violence, oppression and retaliation for having left. Such practices are contrary to human rights-based international solidarity; (d) In light of the rise of xenophobic populist discourse against migrants and refugees in Sweden within the latest political campaign, Sweden renew and enhance its efforts to combat such discourse, especially as it is directed towards refugees and migrants, as it tends to jeopardize and considerably threaten efforts to advance human rights-based international solidarity. 19