A/HRC/13/16 53. The delegation indicated that since the Freedom Coup, the Government has been inviting the United Nations special rapporteurs on human rights to visit the country, and has, at all times, offered its cooperation in order to facilitate their missions, which showed the political will of the Government to improve the human rights situation in the country. 54. Regarding efforts to solve the phenomenon of child labour, the delegation referred to the promulgation of Law N. 2/2004 from January 4th on the General Labour Laws, which regulates Child Labour and prevents people younger than 14 years from working. Was also promulgated the Law N. 1/2004 from September 14th on the illegal traffic of migrants and trafficking in persons, which sanction Child Labour and parental abuse of the child. In application of this disposition, the Interior Ministry had issued a ministerial Order prohibiting street selling by children and instructing relevant authorities to strictly implement the laws, particularly the Law on illegal trafficking of Migrants. The Government has also carried out seminars through the Ministry of Justice and Worship for all people involved in the issue so that they are aware of the legislation in force. 55. According to the delegation, the Government, in its ambitious development plan “Guinea Equatorial Horizon 2020”, has established priorities in the area of Human Rights which fully foresee cooperation, including through training of human resources, empowering of public agents and public services, awareness raising at all levels on Human Rights, particularly on the rights of Women, Children and other vulnerable groups, participation of civil society in training programs about Human rights, introduction of the concept of Human Rights values and ethic in the programs of primary, secondary and higher education. The delegation reiterated the willingness to continue developing the human rights process, counting on international cooperation. 56. The delegation highlighted among measures adopted by the Government the following: • In education, it reformed in 2006 the Law of 1995 on General education, a reform which aimed at ending the state monopoly in education and to develop education at all levels; • In 2003, the educational plan was passed for the promotion and schooling of the girl child, sexual education, material education of the population and family life, thus offering equal opportunity for boys and girls to access education; • Through the Ministry of Social Affairs and Promotion of Women, a program to promote literacy among women, girls and female adolescents, on the national level, has been implemented, with the active support of the Cuban cooperation; • On access to land property, there is the Project for the Promotion of SelfEmployment for Rural Women (PRAMUR), which started its first phase in 2001 with the technical and financial support of the Canadian Cooperation. The second phase, which started in 2007, has been funded though the Social Fund under the technical management of the United States Agency for International Development. The funding of this project in 2008 was in the amount of $4,500,000; • Women participated without any restriction to the decision-making process, both at family level and public life. Nevertheless, in family life, the culture which promotes birth and the patriarchal pattern of relations within the family continued to be some of the reasons why women have very little decision-making power for example in family planning, education of children etc. However, programs are carried out on education, information and communication in order to change these behavioural patterns. 57. Regarding the measures sanctioning domestic violence and implemented policies in this regard, the delegation noted that the Fundamental Law the country, which establishes 10