A/HRC/11/L.10 page 154 (b) Consultations were ongoing with a view to domesticating the provisions of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and ratifying the Optional Protocol. In April 2009, Mauritius had announced that it had no objection to the proposed visit of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography to analyse the current situation and to make recommendations on measures to allow Mauritius to ratify the Optional Protocol. Mauritius had recommended that the said visit be made by the end of 2009; (c) Concerning the recommendation to increase efforts to ensure full compliance of domestic legislation with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Ministry of Women’s Rights, Child Development and Family Welfare was in the process of preparing a consolidated children’s bill; (d) The Government budget for 2009, recently approved by the National Assembly, provided for necessary funds to be allocated to the Office of the Ombudsperson for Children to achieve a number of important objectives and to monitor children’s rights in Mauritius; (e) The Combating of Trafficking in Persons Act was passed on 21 April 2009 and was aimed at not only preventing human trafficking and prosecuting traffickers, but also at providing protection and assistance to victims of trafficking; (f) A series of measures had been announced in the recent budget exercise to eradicate poverty, including the strengthening of the eradication of poverty programme; (g) With a view to alleviating the problem of overcrowding and to providing improved conditions to prisoners, Mauritius planned to build a new, modern prison to accommodate 750 detainees. The land for this purpose had been earmarked and the conceptual design was in progress. 633. Mauritius had also pledged to examine 13 recommendations and had drawn attention to the addendum to the report of the Working Group it had submitted and highlighted a few issues in this regard. 634. The Abolition of the Death Penalty Act had been passed in Mauritius in 1995, and all death sentences had been commuted by operation of the law. Since then, Mauritius has consistently