A/HRC/16/75 remaining 16. Seven of the rejected recommendations related to the visit of specific special procedures,44 although the State did accept recommendations about general cooperation with the special procedures.45 Other recommendations that enjoyed the State’s support included promoting economic, social and cultural rights and establishing national human rights institutions in conformity with the Paris Principles. The Islamic Republic of Iran also agreed to consider the abolition of executions of juvenile offenders and guaranteeing free and unrestricted access to the Internet. B. Cooperation with the United Nations human rights treaty system 42. In addition to the ratification of five major United Nations human rights treaties,46 on 21 September 2010, the Islamic Republic of Iran signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. 43. On 4 and 5 August 2010, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination considered the eighteenth and nineteenth periodic reports of the Islamic Republic of Iran,47 which were due in 2006. The Committee noted various positive developments in the State, including the approval of the Law on Citizenry Rights in 2005, the amendment of the Fourth Development Plan, which allows budget allocations and a percentage of oil and gas revenues for the development of less developed provinces, particularly inhabited by disadvantaged ethnic groups, and the country’s active engagement with the international community on human rights issues, such as its initiative on promoting dialogue among civilizations. The Committee expressed concerns, however, at reports of racial discrimination in everyday life and statements of racial discrimination and incitement to hatred by Government officials. It noted that women of minority origin may be at risk of facing double discrimination. The Committee noted that the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination had never been invoked by domestic courts, and expressed its concern at reports of discriminatory treatment of foreign nationals in the Iranian justice system. The Committee encouraged the State to consider ratifying those international human rights treaties that it had not yet ratified. In 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran submitted for examination its third periodic report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to the Human Rights Committee and its second periodic report concerning the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. They were the first reports submitted by the State to the committees in more than a decade, and are expected to be considered in October 2011 and 2012, respectively. C. Cooperation with United Nations special procedures 44. The Islamic Republic of Iran issued a standing invitation to all thematic special procedure mandate holders in June 2002. In 2003 and 2005, six mandate holders visited the country, but there have been no visits by any special procedures since 2005. 44 45 46 47 14 Recommendations 5 to 11 call for the facilitation of visits by special procedures mandate holders, including the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers and the Working Group on arbitrary detention. Recommendations 24 to 28. The Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. CERD/C/IRN/CO/18-19.