A/HRC/41/44/Add.1 people”, who are often viewed as exploited or neglected by those power-holding elites (see, for example, A/73/305 and Corr.1, paras. 8–10). Given the current context in Europe, the Independent Expert warns against the expansion of such ideologies, whose roots and founding principles exacerbate inequality and discrimination in ways that are incompatible with human rights-based international solidarity. II. Applicable human rights law framework 6. Sweden is a party to most international human rights instruments, although it has yet to 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. In its report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in 2014 (CEDAW/C/SWE/8-9), the Government argued that the ratification of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families was unnecessary, as the protection provided by the Convention was already assured by other conventions to which Sweden was a party, namely six other central United Nations conventions on human rights and the International Labour Organization (ILO) Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143). It also explained that it had not yet ratified the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance because an analysis had to be made of the need for related legislation, and that the matter was currently being reviewed by the relevant government offices. Nevertheless, during its most recent universal periodic review, in 2015, 12 States recommended that Sweden ratify or take steps to ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 7 States called on it to proceed with its ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 4 States recommended that it ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and 2 recommended that it ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (see A/HRC/29/13). 7. The Riksdag (parliament) has set as an objective of democratic policy that human rights should be respected in Sweden. The Government has adopted two national plans of action for human rights and, in 2016, adopted a strategy on national human rights policy (A/HRC/WG.6/21/SWE/1). While there are three ombudsman offices dealing with human rights issues (the Parliamentary Ombudsman, the Equality Ombudsman and the Ombudsman for Children), Sweden has yet to establish a national human rights institution according to the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles). Commitment to the 2030 Agenda and other relevant instruments for international solidarity 8. Thanks to its democratic system and steady economic development for many decades, Sweden is in a favourable position to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals. The Government has consistently expressed its determination to make Sweden a leader in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, at both the global and the national levels. For instance, the Prime Minister established an informal high-level political group in 2015, composed of several Heads of State and Government from all regions, to advocate for the 2030 Agenda to be high on the international political agenda.2 2 Sweden, Sweden and the 2030 Agenda: Report to the UN High Level Political Forum 2017 on Sustainable Development, p. 8. 3