A/HRC/20/12 104. The Ombudsman Institution should continue its efforts to become a more effective entity to promote and protect human rights and should ensure that its representative offices in the various provinces of Kyrgyzstan effectively address cases of human rights violations. On human rights mechanisms 105. The Government should submit as soon as possible any overdue reports to international human rights treaty bodies, and increase its responses to communications from special procedures of the Human Rights Council, and views of the United Nations Human Rights Committee on individual communications. 106. The Government should establish an interdepartmental body reporting to the Presidential Administration to implement the recommendations of the United Nations Human Rights mechanisms. Participation of all key ministries and other relevant stakeholders, such as the Ombudsman Institution and civil society, should be ensured. The Government should consider submitting an interim report to the universal periodic review on the implementation of recommendations accepted in September 2010. 107. The Government should ratify or accede to instruments to which it is not yet a party, including those which provide for individual complaints procedures, namely the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. 18

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