A/HRC/34/8 18. Progress had been made in decreasing the prevalence of HIV. The Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission Strategy for 2014-2018 focused on pregnant and lactating women, as well as on adolescent girls and young women. The Government would be launching a global framework on HIV prevention, care and treatment. National AIDS Trust Fund resources were being channelled towards prevention and community engagement in care and treatment, among other things. Youth-friendly corners were being established in health facilities to meet the needs of unmarried adolescents. 19. On the issue of child sexual abuse, the delegation stated that the legal and structural framework was sufficient to protect children from such abuse. 20. On the issue of the death penalty, the delegation recalled that, during the previous review, Zimbabwe had accepted recommendations to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. However, during the consultative process for the drafting of the 2013 Constitution, the majority of the people had favoured retaining the death penalty, which had delayed ratification of the Optional Protocol. The 2013 Constitution nevertheless provided for the enactment of a law to restrict the use of the death penalty to men between 21 and 70 years of age convicted of aggravated murder. Nationwide campaigns on the effects of the death penalty were under way. 21. Although ratification of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment was still under consideration, the content of the Convention had been incorporated into the 2013 Constitution and into domestic law. 22. The disappearance of Itai Dzamara was being investigated and the authorities were working with his family and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights in that regard. 23. The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission would come into operation through passage of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission bill, to be considered during the current session of Parliament. 24. All independent commissions were being funded directly from the Treasury, which had strengthened their independence. The Constitution guaranteed the independence of the commissions. The stringent and transparent process on the removal of commissioners from office guaranteed their tenure. 25. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission was independent. The Government did not interfere with its operations and supported it in the discharge of its mandate. 26. The right of women to inherit or acquire land and other property was provided for in the law. Wives and daughters could inherit from the estates of their deceased husbands and fathers. Moreover, the Constitution called upon the Government to promote the full participation of women in all spheres, including in respect of land ownership, on an equal basis with men. 27. The mandate of the Zimbabwe Gender Commission included monitoring gender equality and investigating violations of rights relating to gender. The relevant laws were being aligned with the provisions of the 2013 Constitution, to ensure equal representation of women in all institutions. There was a legal framework in place to combat domestic violence. 28. It was not the policy of the Government to distribute food along partisan lines. The Government had adopted a zero-tolerance policy towards the politicization of food aid and had put into place stringent measures against such malpractice. 29. Whenever the prison population exceeded the holding capacity, inmates were transferred from closed prisons to spacious farm prisons. That measure was complemented by the periodic issuance by the President of clemency orders. A prisons and correctional 5