A/HRC/42/16 9. The right to free health care had also been restored. During the reporting period, the number of medical centres had increased from 1,287 to 1,520, the number of doctors from 5,566 to 6,318, the number of health workers from 31,124 to 35,841 and the number of maternity homes from 165 to 178. The maternal mortality rate had decreased from 37 to 34 per 100,000 live births, and 2,820,982 people had received care in mobile clinic units. 10. The proportion of the population with electricity access had increased from 80.4 per cent in 2014 to 95.31 per cent. A total of 767 km of highway had been built, connecting the Pacific and the Caribbean regions for the first time, benefiting 3.5 million people. Some 57,859 homes had been built or improved, benefiting 236,165 people. 11. Moreover, 138,737 individual property titles and 23 territorial titles had been granted to indigenous and Afrodescendent communities, allocating 37,842 km2 (some 31 per cent of the national territory) to 39,531 families from 304 communities. 12. The number of workers affiliated to the social security system had increased by 9 per cent, from 690,870 in 2014 to 754,688 in September 2018. At the same time, 83 houses for persons with disabilities had been built, providing for the needs of 138,540 individuals. 13. Nicaragua continued to be the safest country in Central America and the third least violent in Latin America, with only 6.3 per cent of crimes registered as highly dangerous. 14. Some 8,619 prevention activities had been carried out to combat trafficking in persons, in which 467,863 individuals had participated. Some 44,332 public officials had been trained on the prevention of trafficking in persons. 15. Equitable representation of women and men was guaranteed in all positions of elected office and government posts. Nicaragua had been internationally recognized as ranking sixth in the global gender equity index, first in the Americas, fifth with regard to the number of women serving in the parliament and first with regard to the number of women occupying ministerial posts. In 2018, it had risen from sixty-second to fifth place on the Global Gender Gap Index, having reduced gender inequality by 80.9 per cent. 16. Women occupied 59.7 per cent of posts in the judiciary, 56 per cent in the executive branch and 45.7 per cent in the National Assembly, as well as constituting 46 per cent of mayors, 60 per cent of deputy mayors and 50 per cent of councillors. Women held the most important positions in the State and in the Government. 17. In the 2017 municipal elections, the 2016 general election and the 2014 elections to the regional councils of indigenous and Afrodescendent peoples, the free, direct and confidential participation of the Nicaraguan people had been guaranteed through 19 legally registered political parties. Daniel Ortega had been elected President in the 2016 general election, having won 72.44 per cent of the votes. The electoral process had been monitored by the Organization of American States (OAS) and other national and international electoral monitors. 18. The Government had made progress in the adoption of five international instruments on the rights of children and young people, and had submitted seven reports to the United Nations human rights treaty bodies. 19. Between April and June 2018, a group of radical political organizations and factions posing as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) had conducted violent street protests. The situation had been exacerbated by manipulation in the media and on social networks in order to destabilize the country with the purpose of overthrowing the Government and disrupting the Constitutional process. The protestors had set up more than 100 roadblocks on the country’s main highways, preventing public and emergency services from working, paralyzing national and regional trade and seriously damaging the transport, construction and tourism industries. 20. During the attempted overthrow, 198 people, 22 of whom were police officers, had met a violent death and 1,240, 401 of whom were police officers, had been injured. Some 8,708 companies, 90 per cent of them small and medium-sized enterprises, had been forced to close down, 119,567 jobs had been lost and there had been the equivalent of US$ 205,000,000 in damages to the public sector and US$ 277,400,000 to tourism. 3