A/HRC/33/5 15. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines also continued to strengthen its national policy framework on gender-based violence. An ongoing anti-violence campaign, launched in 2014, focused on increasing children and communities’ awareness of gender-based violence issues. The Victims’ Support Programme had been established to provide psychosocial and socioeconomic support to victims. 16. The country continued to implement forward-looking policies aimed at improving and ensuring an adequate standard of living for all, as articulated in its national report. It continued to support education and health, including sexual reproductive services. 17. The country also continued to strive to achieve zero hunger and zero undernourishment. 18. Despite the fiscal challenges that the devastating effects of floods and storms over the past five years and the worldwide economic crisis had entailed, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines refused to be prevented from striving to do its best to ensure that all of its citizens enjoyed their fundamental rights and freedoms and lived in a fair and just society and to realize increased social and economic development. B. Interactive dialogue and responses by the State under review 19. During the interactive dialogue, 46 delegations made statements. Recommendations made during the dialogue are to be found in section II of the present report. All written statements of the delegations, to be checked against delivery on the United Nations webcast archives,2 are posted on the extranet of the Human Rights Council when available. 3 20. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela recognized that Saint Vincent and the Grenadines had made progress in the incorporation of the gender perspective in health, education, agriculture and social services. 21. Algeria welcomed the improvements since the first review in the fields of domestic violence and discrimination against women, and measures to ensure access for persons with special needs to the mainstream educational system. 22. Argentina praised Saint Vincent and the Grenadines for progress made in the fight against domestic violence. It recalled that a person was last sentenced to death in the islands in 1993. 23. Australia commended Saint Vincent and the Grenadines for acceding to a range of international human rights instruments and the opening of the Belle Isle prison. It remained concerned by the conditions at the old prison in Kingstown. It regretted that violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons had not been addressed appropriately. 24. The Bahamas considered noteworthy the efforts to ensure the right to education; the enactment of domestic violence legislation; the inclusion of human rights training in the curriculum of the police force; the construction of a new correctional facility conforming to the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules); and the priority accorded to poverty eradication. 2 3 GE.16-11831 United Nations webcast archives are available at http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/human-rightscouncil/universal-periodic-review/25th-upr/watch/st-vincent-and-the-grenadines-review-25th-sessionof-universal-periodic-review/4875358776001. Available on the extranet of the universal periodic review at https://extranet.ohchr.org/ sites/upr/Sessions/25session/StVincentandtheGrenadines/Pages/default.aspx. 5