A/HRC/22/4 in various provincial prisons and detention centres and the reported high number of children living below the poverty line, in relation to which the Universal Child Allowance is a major step forward. It made recommendations. 93. Bangladesh appreciated the Government of Argentina’s strides toward diverse socioeconomic development and implementing human rights recommendations and voluntary commitments. Bangladesh was particularly encouraged by favourable indicators in terms of education access and coverage, but recalled concerns raised by treaty bodies concerning discrimination against women, disparities in accessing socio-economic opportunities, particularly by migrants and asked about plans to address these concerns. 94. The delegation recalled that since 2003 there had been regulations on access to public information and that the current administration had established more guarantees than at any other time in the past, as was the case of decree 1172 guaranteeing access to public information to any citizen, under any condition. Additionally, there were five general regulations and the Executive power was required to ensure public information. As an example, the State had voluntarily declassified information related to crimes against humanity and serious violations of human rights. 95. Several delegations had referred to the existence of patterns of discrimination in Argentina that had to be overcome. The State acknowledged this situation and considered that such discrimination was not a problem coming from the victim but from society. Three elements were needed to improve the situation: information, visibility and political action. The delegation listened and gathered information and recommendations put forward by other delegations to develop public policies in order to improve the situation of people of African descent, Latin American migrants, indigenous peoples, transsexual persons and other groups and to combat gender violence. 96. The delegation acknowledged that the human rights movement was the best product generated by the Argentine social fabric during historically difficult moments. The movement was still relevant today. The national report prepared for the second review of Argentina was a collection of all the cooperation of Argentine NGOs in the development, design and implementation of public policies and laws on human rights. 97. The delegation thanked delegations for the recommendations that were put forward in good faith in order to improve the human rights situation in Argentina as well as the best practices that other delegations shared during the review. 98. Before concluding, the delegation referred to the witness protection programmes for victims of State terrorism. Also, the delegation answered to some observations regarding freedom of expression in Argentina and considered that the best way to measure it was looking at how the media would report the results of the second UPR review of Argentina. II. Conclusions and/or recommendations** 99. The following recommendations will be examined by Argentina which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the 22nd session of the Human Rights Council in March 2013. 99.1. Ratify the new optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Portugal); ** 14 Conclusions and recommendations have not been edited.