A/HRC/8/52 page 113 239. In its report to the Council’s Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (A/HRC/26.6/1/TUN/1), Tunisia described some of the commitments it had undertaken to give new impetus to the protection and promotion of human rights. Since the submission of the country’s report, new measures had been taken to consolidate the effective enjoyment of human rights in daily life, including: (a) The extending of an invitation to the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism to visit Tunisia; (b) The passage of a law on the national institution for the promotion and protection of human rights (the High Committee on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions (the Paris Principles, General Assembly resolution 48/134, annex). This new legislative statute consolidates the High Committee’s administrative and financial autonomy and strengthens it operational capacity. 240. Tunisia drew attention to a number of steps it had taken to ensure more effective practical implementation of human rights in the country, including: (a) The adoption of a law on Tunisia’s accession to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol; (b) The adoption of a law on Tunisia’s accession to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; (c) The adoption of an act withdrawing the reservations entered by Tunisia in the act ratifying of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; (d) The adoption by the Council of Ministers of a bill aimed at strengthening jurisdictional guarantees during pretrial detention and at making conditions of automatic release and rehabilitation procedures more flexible; (e) Submission of a periodic report on implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; (f) Submission of a periodic report on implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; (g) The visit to Tunisia of two Special Rapporteurs of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders in Africa and the Special Rapporteur on the rights of women in Africa, from 25 to 30 June 2008; (h) The holding of talks with the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch with a view to concluding an agreement on visits to prisons, similar to the agreement concluded with the International Committee of the Red Cross; (i) The establishment of an institution associated with the General Human Rights Coordinator responsible for follow-up to the recommendations of treaty bodies.