A/HRC/34/73 20. The Independent Expert was informed by the Haitian authorities that the deportation of Haitian nationals and persons of Haitian origin from the Dominican Republic was still ongoing.3 More effective measures must be adopted to improve their de facto and de jure situation. 21. No specific measures seem to have been adopted to boost literacy or to deal with past violations. The Independent Expert continues to highlight this problem in the present report. 22. In his previous report, the Independent Expert noted that, following the abolition in December 2014 of the human rights entity established in 2012 in the form of a Deputy Minister attached to the Office of the Prime Minister, it would be advisable to have a human rights entity with sufficient authority to coordinate the work of the government agencies active in this sphere and to broker the adoption of a cross-cutting human rights policy within the executive branch, from where it would subsequently be extended throughout the State and society. The Government took note of “those recommendations deemed relevant”4 and informed the Independent Expert that it would transmit them to the new administration. 23. In his previous report, the Independent Expert encouraged the Government — and he does so again — to ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families; the Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Related Forms of Intolerance; and the InterAmerican Convention Against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance. He also encourages Parliament to approve the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which the Government had submitted to it to obtain its authorization for the instrument’s ratification. 24. In November 2016, Haiti underwent its universal periodic review before the Human Rights Council. It accepted a total of 175 recommendations, including a recommendation to adopt, in consultation with civil society, a plan of action to prioritize, ratify and implement key international human rights treaties, including the Convention against Torture, its Optional Protocol and the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Labour Organization (ILO) Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness; to continue its efforts to provide full access to justice, health services and education for all; to implement a plan of action to promote human rights, in cooperation with civil society and the Office of the Ombudsman, with a special emphasis on the rights of women and vulnerable groups; to remove from its legislation and practice all civil and criminal provisions that constitute discrimination towards women and girls; and to redouble its efforts to improve the conditions of persons deprived of their liberty, in particular by reducing periods of pretrial detention, facilitating access to justice and improving the facilities of detention centres. 5 25. Haiti replied that the other recommendations made during its universal periodic review would be examined and that it would respond to them, at the latest, during the thirty-fourth session of the Human Rights Council in March 2017. To this end, a consultation workshop with civil society, the diplomatic corps and the United Nations agencies present in Haiti was held on 20 December 2016. Following the consultation, the Government informed the Independent Expert that it was no longer deferring any recommendations and that the number of recommendations accepted by Haiti had risen to 188 and those of which it had taken note to 25. The Government also wished to point out that the recommendation to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which the Independent Expert had encouraged it to 3 4 5 6 Ibid., para. 7. Ibid., para. 3. A/HRC/34/14, para. 115. GE.17-03747