A/HRC/34/9 fighting discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons in Lithuania. 12. The newly adopted Labour Code incorporated the principle of gender equality and non-discrimination and prohibited direct and indirect discrimination on various grounds, including sexual orientation. 13. In October 2016, the Ministry of Education and Science had adopted a new compulsory programme on health, sexuality and family life as a compulsory component of primary and secondary education. 14. In addition to the information on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities contained in the national report, the delegation indicated that an action plan for the implementation of the recommendations made by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities had been adopted. Subsequently, a draft action plan for 2016-2020 had been prepared. The Civil Code had been amended to introduce a new approach in the assessment of the capacity of persons with disabilities and new measures to provide them with support in decision-making. The underlying rationale of the new law was that legal capacity should be preserved as much as possible and the required support should be provided to all individuals in the exercise of their rights. 15. A draft law containing disability and age as prohibited grounds of discrimination punished under the Criminal Code had been approved by the Government. The Code of Administrative Offences, which would enter into force in 2017, included hatred as an aggravating circumstance. 16. As a result of the 2015 reforms of the penitentiary system, there were no establishments in which persons were deprived of their liberty that were overcrowded. The prison population constituted 75 per cent of the total capacity of those establishments. The Government had been renovating those institutions and had opened a new prison hospital. 17. Lithuania had been conducting strategic reforms in an effort to eradicate corruption and had improved its score in the global Corruption Perceptions Index, scoring 61 in 2015, as opposed to 50 in 2011. Since 2013, Lithuania had been actively participating in the Working Group on Bribery of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and had been seeking full member status in the group. 18. The Government had committed to accepting more refugees from other European Union member States. Within the framework of the European Union relocation and resettlement scheme, Lithuania had agreed to accept 1,105 refugees. Migrants and refugees from third countries who possessed a Lithuanian residence permit would be able to join the labour market and integrate into public life, thanks to the social assistance and integration measures that were in place. Additional funding had been allocated in the national budget for 2017 to meet the needs of refugees. 19. The Seimas Ombudsmen’s Office had submitted its application for accreditation as a national human rights institution in December 2015 after thorough consultations with different stakeholders to assess whether legal amendments would be needed to ensure the Office’s compliance with the Paris Principles. The date of the review of the application would be scheduled in November 2016. 20. The Office had been designated as the national preventive mechanism pursuant to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture. During the previous three years, it had undertaken more than 120 visits to places of detention and had submitted more than 300 recommendations to State and municipal institutions concerning, inter alia, living conditions in prisons, health-care services for detainees and prisoners, out-of-cell activities, protection against ill-treatment and rehabilitation. The Office advocated for improvements in conditions in mental institutions, including minimum living space for patients, the right 5