A/HRC/22/4 in political life. While noting that laws and regulations implemented to counter discrimination and violence against women, the Netherlands referred to the overall impression that perpetrators of such violence were not sufficiently prosecuted and punished. It made recommendations. 51. Nicaragua commended Argentina’s human rights progress and normative and institutional changes on protection issues. Nicaragua recognized improvement in combating discrimination against vulnerable sectors, particularly women’s empowerment. Nicaragua expressed concern over people of African descent. It noted reports on lack of housing for 80 per cent of the rural population, requesting more information on the Procrear plan. Nicaragua made a recommendation. 52. Norway expressed concern over gender-based violence. It commended the united register for domestic violence cases. Norway expressed concern over unsafe abortions resulting from the criminalization of abortion. It requested more information on civil society participation in the UPR report-writing process. It referred to reported concerns over public access to public information. Norway made recommendations. 53. The delegation recalled that Argentina used as a reference the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners and the decision of the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights on principles and good practices for the protection of persons deprived of liberty. The State applied to detainees the same policies of human rights as to the rest of the population, on the premise that the only freedom that was restricted was freedom of movement. The State coordinated between various instances in order to improve the quality of life of detainees and had opened prisons to the community. The State worked with various civil society organizations in this regard. Also, several prisons had been built or were under construction in order to reduce overcrowding. Currently, at the federal level, there were more places in prisons than prisoners, which allowed a better management and classification of detainees. 54. The delegation noted that 70 per cent of those arrested were able to work, 65 per cent received education and 90 per cent participated in cultural activities or sports. 55. Furthermore, on the basis of the new mental health law and the programme “Prisma”, prison psychiatric units were closed and persons with mental illnesses were treated fairly by health-care staff. 56. Regarding torture, while the establishment of the National Preventive Mechanism was still pending, the penitentiary authorities had established, in cooperation with civil society organizations, monitory programmes for the prevention of torture in correctional facilities. Any civil society organization could conduct an inspection to detention centres without previous notice. This was supplemented by courses of prevention and punishment of torture for the management of prisons, as recommended by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Finally, through roundtables with civil society, the penitentiary authorities had also drafted protocols to prevent violent situations in units of young adults and on how to conduct searches. 57. Regarding indigenous peoples, the delegation noted that the 2010 national census of population and housing had included indigenous and African self-identification. The results reflected around a million people of Indian descent and some 70,000 people of African descent. The results allowed the formalization of individual policies for each of these groups. 58. The delegation stated that the current administration had enacted laws that implemented ILO Convention No. 169 on indigenous and tribal peoples in independent countries (1989), and mentioned as examples the norm on intercultural bilingual education and the demarcation of indigenous land. On this last point, more than three and a half 9