A/HRC/33/6 29. The implementation of the law and justice sector plan had seen the separation of the Ministry of Police and the Correctional Services. The upgrading of prison facilities included relocation to a bigger site and the construction of new infrastructure, to be funded from the national budget. The proposed new infrastructure included the provision of rehabilitative programmes for inmates so that reintegration into communities was facilitated. That included appropriate health and counselling facilities. 30. Under the law and justice sector reforms, the Government had also looked into the rehabilitation of deported returnees. The Office of the Attorney General, under the auspices of the law and justice sector, had collaborated to set up the first charitable trust in the Pacific for returnees. The main goal of the Samoa Returnees Charitable Trust Integration Assistance Programme was to provide resettlement services, family reunification links and temporary accommodation to ensure a strategic intervention with regard to the growing number of returnees and a potentially increase in antisocial behaviour. 31. Establishing a mechanism to support deportees through the period of their arrival and resettlement in Samoa would help, both from a security perspective in preventing the development of a cultural underclass linked to transnational criminal organizations and involved in criminal activity, and from a human rights perspective, enabling the deportees to become responsible, contributing members of the Samoan community. The initiative was establishing vocational networks to allow returnees to prove to the community that they were law-abiding citizens and deserved a second chance. The successful implementation and sustainability of the programme was premised on the support of traditional social structures, including extended families and faith-based organizations. 32. The delegation stated that some important changes had emerged from the health sector: maternity leave was now up to 6 months, and paid leave had been extended from 8 to 12 weeks, with 5 days of parental leave. 33. Abortion was illegal and could only be performed on medical grounds if there was the life of the pregnant woman was in danger. 34. The focus of the United Nations Population Fund in Samoa was on strengthening national capacity to deliver family planning and reproductive health services, as well as sexual and reproductive health services for young people. Implementation was focused on setting up strategically located youth health centres, where young people would have access to such services with privacy guaranteed. A growing group of youth peer educators had been trained to lead peer learning in sexual and reproductive health services within faith-based youth organizations, with support from the ministries of community development health and education. 35. The Government remained committed to ensuring that it ratified all core human rights conventions to safeguard citizens and their rights, and therefore had accepted the recommendations in that regard. 36. Samoa would be the first Pacific island country to ratify the three Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It had submitted the instruments of ratification for all three Optional Protocols: (a) on the involvement of children in armed conflict; (b) on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; and (c) on a communications procedure. That showed the strong commitment of Samoa to the protection of children from harmful practices that might affect their rights and freedoms. 37. Samoa was working towards the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, as disability rights was one of the biggest human rights issues. Samoa would continue to work with international and regional partners on the development of specific stand-alone disability legislation to support the full implementation of the GE.16-10832 7