A/HRC/39/3 9. The Government had adopted the National Action Plan on Gender Equality in Turkmenistan for the period 2015–2020, the National Action Plan on Human Rights in Turkmenistan for the period 2016–2020 and the National Action Plan against Trafficking in Persons for the period 2016–2018. 10. The delegation reported on the implementation of a number of recommendations from the second review cycle. Turkmenistan had taken measures to strengthen cooperation with the international human rights mechanisms. The Government had carried out several initiatives within the Human Rights Council, including co-sponsoring the Council’s resolutions on gender equality and mainstreaming a gender perspective into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and on the realization of human rights through sport. The Government had been planning a visit by the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights in the coming years. The authorities had held meetings with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to exchange views on selected cases and discuss further mutual cooperation. 11. The authorities had cooperated with the relevant international organizations, including the International Labour Organization (ILO), on issues of forced labour. Some high-level officials of ILO had visited Turkmenistan to provide advice and technical assistance on the issues of ratification of new conventions and on the implementation of those conventions that had been already ratified by Turkmenistan. 12. The delegation reported on some measures that had been taken to implement the Sustainable Development Goals. The authorities, in cooperation with the United Nations country team in Turkmenistan had developed a three-stage plan on how to incorporate those goals and relevant targets at the national level. As a result of those efforts, the President had adopted a national action plan on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Turkmenistan. In addition, a high-level national committee and interdepartmental committee on technical matters of the implementation of the goals had been established. 13. Since its second universal periodic review, Turkmenistan had acceded to a number of international treaties, including the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention, 2003 (No. 185) and the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the 1954 and 1999 Protocols thereto. 14. National experts had examined the question of accession to other international treaties, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Convention against Discrimination in Education. 15. Turkmenistan had adopted in 2016 amendments to the Law on Combating Trafficking in Persons and the National Action Plan against Trafficking in Persons for the period 2016–2018. The Government had developed standard operating procedures for the effective identification of trafficking victims and monitoring mechanisms for the implementation of the National Action Plan. 16. An anti-corruption law had been adopted in 2014. Subsequently, a State programme on combating corruption and an action plan for its implementation had been adopted in 2017. The Government had established a State agency on combating economic crimes. 17. Turkmenistan had adopted the Information Protection Act in 2014, which regulated matters related to the exercise of the right to seek, receive, produce, use and disseminate information, and also the application of information technologies and the protection of information. The Act on the Legal Regulation of the Development of the Internet and the Provision of Internet Services in Turkmenistan had been adopted in 2014. The delegation provided detailed information to demonstrate an increase in Internet access and the use of modern communication technologies by the general population. It noted that no Internet 3