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605. Regarding the Yogyakarta Principles, currently a committee for issues relating to sexual
minorities is being set up under the Government Council for Human Rights. The committee will
work on implementing recommendations stemming from the recently prepared analysis of the
state of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender minority, most of which are already in
compliance with the Yogyakarta Principles, and stemming from the Yogyakarta Principles.
606. On the international political and legal framework for the protection and promotion of
human rights, the Government remained committed to full cooperation and an open and
constructive dialogue with all the monitoring treaty bodies and human rights special
mechanisms. The Parliament is currently considering the Government proposal to ratify the
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. In the course of this year, inter-departmental
consultations will be taking place with a view to preparing a proposal to sign the International
Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, and the Ministry of
Labour and Social Affairs will present to the Government a proposal to ratify the Convention on
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto. The Government is of
the view that the rights of migrant workers and their families are comprehensively protected
under existing national legislation and international commitments, and is therefore currently not
considering the signature of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All
Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
607. Regarding the recommendation related to trainings for the judiciary on international human
rights law, the Czech Republic continues to strengthen this crucial aspect of education of legal
professionals, which is attended by judges and public prosecutors. Some of these trainings are
open also to members of other legal and court trainees, and seminars of continuing education are
conducted for judges and public prosecutors with up to three years’ experience.
608. The Government was ready to submit to the Council, in the coming months and years,
information on all concrete developments that would be achieved in the areas covered by the
recommendations as a proof of its commitment to the ultimate goal of the universal periodic
review, which is to achieve concrete improvements in the situation of human rights in the
countries under review.
2. Views expressed by member and observer States
of the Council on the review outcome
609. No views were expressed by States members and observers of the Council.
3. General comments made by other relevant stakeholders
610. The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, in a joint statement with Canadian
HIV/AIDS Legal Network, welcomed the process and outcome of the universal periodic review,
and the attention paid during the interactive dialogue and in the report in the Working Group to
the severe exclusion of the Roma minority in the Czech Republic and to the need to tackle
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. It requested that the record reflect specific
concerns, including the lack of a Government response to the coercive sterilization of several
hundreds of Roma women during the period from the late 1970s to 2004. The Government had
not offered any clear indication as how it intended to rectify the current erosion of the right to
adequate housing in domestic law. It was also unknown how the Government would desegregate
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