A/HRC/39/5 at the National Police Training Centre now included a module on human rights, including on the Convention against Torture. 24. Two prisons complied fully with the obligation to have separate cells for minors and adults, one prison complied partially and the fourth was not yet compliant. Furthermore, more health professionals had been allocated to prisons. Social security in Cabo Verde covered almost 40 per cent of the population and unemployment benefits were provided to families living in poverty. 25. Steps had been taken to improve the provision of health services, including the National Plan for Vaccination, which had been expanded to include vaccination for 10 different diseases. There was also a new Water and Sanitation Code, which had been approved in 2015. 26. The Housing for All programme had already assigned 1,967 homes and had determined that 5 per cent of the homes needed to be made accessible for persons with disabilities. 27. Measures to stimulate employment had been taken, including incentives for companies to recruit young people and the increase of the minimal wage from CVEsc 11,000 to CVEsc 13,000. 28. The Government had intensified the production of renewable energies and had developed strategies to manage the risks posed by climate change as a matter of priority. B. Interactive dialogue and responses by the State under review 29. During the interactive dialogue, 70 delegations made statements. Recommendations made during the dialogue are to be found in section II of the present report. 30. Azerbaijan appreciated the efforts made by the Government to implement the recommendations it had received during the second cycle of the universal periodic review. It commended Cabo Verde on its ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, and on the issuance of a standing invitation to the special procedures. 31. Benin highlighted the progress Cabo Verde had made since its previous review cycle. It commended it on the steps taken to harmonize the Penal Code with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, its ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the implementation of various international treaties, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Benin encouraged Cabo Verde to pursue its actions and initiatives to promote equality of status and non-discrimination, particularly with regard to the protection of workers against discrimination based on ethnic origin and the creation of a national mechanism for the promotion of human rights and public freedoms. 32. Botswana welcomed the revision of the Penal Code to criminalize trafficking in persons and the sexual exploitation of children and slavery. It commended Cabo Verde for having established and made operational the Office of the Ombudsman, introduced the Human Rights Citizen Plan, ratified the Convention against Torture and for the 2016 National Plan to Combat Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents. 33. Brazil congratulated Cabo Verde for having ratified a range of international human rights instruments. It praised its efforts to establish a national preventive mechanism against torture in line with the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture. It encouraged Cabo Verde to accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. It highlighted the adoption of the National Plan to Combat Gender-based Violence. 34. Burkina Faso noted with satisfaction the efforts Cabo Verde had made in the healthcare sector in general and on maternal health care in particular, as reflected by the reduction 4