A/HRC/22/5 98. With regard to prison conditions, the delegation said that medical staff provided prisoners with at least primary care and transport by ambulance to hospital, but such staff were poorly trained and in short supply. In terms of prison security, a capacity-building programme for prison officers to improve the supervision of prisoners ran throughout the year. Prisoners were free to practise their religion and family visits were authorized. Prisoners could also submit uncensored written complaints to the judicial authorities and call for inquiries into their living conditions. The Government had introduced independent monitoring of prison conditions by organizations like the International Committee of the Red Cross and the NGO Cri de Femmes. 99. With regard to child trafficking, Gabon had adopted the National Procedural Manual for Assisting Trafficking Victims. In 2008, in accordance with Act No. 09/2004, Gabon had hosted a regional conference on child trafficking organized by OHCHR in collaboration with the Economic Community of Central African States. Gabon had established four reception centres in Libreville and one in Port-Gentil to combat violence against children and to protect child victims of cross-border trafficking and domestic abuse. Mechanisms to prevent trafficking were in place across the country, in the form of a national committee and provincial committees. 100. Two special branches of the police were responsible for protecting child victims of trafficking — who were not Gabonese — and a national observatory for children’s rights had been set up. Gabon had ratified the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. The security services and the criminal investigation police carried out targeted operations against trafficking and exploitation. Moreover, a child protection code had been adopted and a law specifically criminalizing violence in the home, schools and institutions was in the process of being adopted. II. Conclusions and/or recommendations** 101. The recommendations formulated during the interactive dialogue/listed below have been examined and enjoy the support of Gabon: 101.1 Consider ratifying international human rights instruments that have not been ratified by Gabon yet (Nicaragua); 101.2 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Portugal); 101.3 Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Australia); 101.4 Follow-up on the commitment of abolishing death penalty by ratifying the second Optional Protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights whose aim is to abolish the death penalty for all crimes in all circumstances (France); 101.5 Ratify the First and Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, the Optional Protocol to ICESCR, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Spain); 101.6 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) (Hungary); ** Conclusions and recommendations have not been edited. 14 GE.12-18722