A/HRC/37/9 with the participation of judges, journalists, union leaders and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons. 23. In follow-up to the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, an action plan had been launched for the period 2017–2021. 24. Guatemala underscored its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals. The education and health conditional monetary transfers were an example of the social programmes in place aimed at implementing policies in the field of education, health, nutrition and productivity for people living in poverty and extreme poverty. Another example was the Family Farming Programme, which was aimed at strengthening the rural economy and contributing to the reduction of chronic malnutrition among children under 2 years of age. 25. The new Migration Code had entered into force in April 2017. It included provisions to strengthen migratory security and recognized the full right to migrate and respect for the rights of migrants. 26. The Public Criminal Defence Institute had brought two cases before the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights that had enabled the Supreme Court of Justice to review and commute the death penalty to imprisonment for previous and subsequent cases. On 24 October 2017, the Constitutional Court had upheld the application for constitutional review brought against the application of the death penalty contained in the Criminal Code and the law against drug trafficking. 27. In order to strengthen efforts to address violence against women, the Supreme Court of Justice had increased the number of specialized judicial bodies to 29 in 12 of the 22 departments of the country. 28. The judiciary, the Public Prosecution Service and the Public Criminal Defence Institute had all adopted policies on gender equality and access to justice, and had set up monitoring mechanisms for their implementation. In March 2017, the Public Prosecution Service had created the Women’s Secretariat, which was the unit responsible for promoting gender equality policies within the institution. 29. The judiciary had strengthened the Control, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of the specialized bodies in femicide and other forms of violence against women. In August 2016, the Office of the Prosecutor for Femicide Cases had been created. 30. To meet the basic needs of the people and families affected by judicial eviction provisions, the Government was launching a humanitarian programme based on respect for international protocols, which provided comprehensive care to those groups. 31. In response to recommendations from States contained in previous reports, Guatemala had taken measures to deinstitutionalize children, taking into account the best interests of the child. The Government regretted the tragedy in the Virgen de la Asunción children’s home, and had taken urgent measures to ensure that all relevant institutions better coordinated their plans, programmes and actions to take care of vulnerable and unprotected children. 32. Guatemala was continuing to take steps to implement SIMORE, the system to monitor human rights recommendations addressed to it, which was a public online platform to monitor the implementation of international human rights recommendations. Under the lead of the Presidential Human Rights Commission, the system would function with the participation of all State institutions, and would include all their actions that responded to recommendations issued by human rights protection bodies. With the support of Paraguay, the process would be finalized in 2018. The system should also serve to strengthen the participation of civil society organizations at the national level in efforts to follow-up on the recommendations of the universal periodic review and other human rights bodies. 4