A/HRC/37/8 social conflict in the extractive sector and applauded Peru for the revised National Plan to Combat Trafficking. It encouraged Peru to increase funding to shelters and services to victims. 52. Chile welcomed the adoption of legislation criminalizing violence against women, prohibiting the use of corporal and humiliating punishments against children and promoting equal opportunities between men and women, and the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure. It expressed concern at structural discrimination regarding sexual orientation and gender identity. 53. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela noted as remarkable the rural habitat support programme aimed at providing homes to those living in poverty and extreme poverty in rural and remote areas and the establishment of the National Council for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities. 54. Algeria welcomed the progress achieved in combating discrimination, torture and forced labour and protecting women from violence, and the steps taken to ratify a number of international human rights instruments. It welcomed the National Human Rights Plan (2017–2021). It also encouraged cooperation with the regional human rights mechanisms and OHCHR. 55. Angola commended Peru for its standing invitation to the special procedure mandate holders and the adoption of multicultural integration policies to overcome ethnic and racial discrimination. 56. Argentina thanked Peru for the presentation of its national report and congratulated it for the establishment of the National Human Rights Plan (2017–2021) and for having accepted in 2016 the competence of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances. 57. Australia welcomed the consultation process during the establishment of the National Human Rights Plan (2017–2021), efforts to address gender equality and the introduction of the General Law for People with Disability, although it expressed concerns at reports that its implementation had been delayed. 58. Azerbaijan welcomed the ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, and endeavours to implement the recommendations of the National Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 59. Bangladesh welcomed the third National Human Rights Plan, the establishment of the directorate for cultural diversity and the elimination of racial discrimination, the inclusion of rights- and gender-based approaches in school curricula and the National Action Plan for Gender Equality and the gender indicator system. It noted that women still faced discrimination in their economic development. 60. Belgium welcomed the adoption of the National Plan against Gender-based Violence. It noted that progress could be achieved in that area, in addressing the issue of violence against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community, and in abolishing the death penalty. 61. The Plurinational State of Bolivia welcomed the efforts made by Peru to support rural housing in order to improve the quality of life of the poor population in rural areas. It also valued the implementation of a number of social programmes by the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion aimed at improving the quality of life of rural populations. 62. Brazil welcomed the designation of the body in charge of the national mechanism for the prevention of torture, the repeal of the police regulation that had imposed disciplinary sanctions for personnel having same-sex relations and progress made in promoting the right to food and combating enforced disappearances. 63. Burkina Faso commended Peru for the adoption of the National Human Rights Plan, the decreased number of people living in poverty, the decrease in overcrowding in prisons and the establishment of the National Commission against Discrimination, which it hoped 7