A/HRC/10/72 Page 8 draft law provides for the creation of a general external control mechanism for places of detention and grants particular competence in this area to the mediator, an independent institution with prerogatives to address the Government when rights have not been respected. The mediator has also a function of monitoring prisons. The draft law will be adopted in the next few months. With regard to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, the Government will ratify it at the same time as the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse. The draft law is being elaborated and will be brought before Parliament in the near future. Part of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography is also covered by the law on human trafficking, which has already been tabled in 2008. 24. With regard to racial discrimination, the delegation said that Luxembourg fully applies European directives in this area, calling for sanctions in cases of racial discrimination and has a monitoring body for all questions of discrimination to ensure that such practices do not occur. With regard to questions relating to discriminatory practices against prisoners of foreign nationality, Luxembourg mentioned that the training of staff, in particular prison guards and law enforcement officials, is designed specifically to preclude all discriminatory practice. This is particularly important for a multicultural society like Luxembourg. 25. With regard to violence against women, the delegation mentioned that Luxembourg had made major efforts over the past 15 years and that cultural elements need to be countered. Refuges for women and children threatened by violence and a service for psychological assistance to violent husbands have been set up. Also, training is provided to police officers who intervene in cases of violence against women. In order to coordinate all these initiatives, an interministerial committee was established to improve procedures, submit an annual analysis report and ensure follow-up of expulsions, in particular of violent husbands from their homes. 26. With regard to discrimination against migrant children, Luxembourg stressed that school programmes and welcome and support classes were organized to help them in their studies, particularly children who had language problems. Luxembourg indicated that a new law on assistance to children prohibiting corporal punishment, including in the home, was adopted on 20 November 2008. 27. Luxembourg indicated that it is modernizing and expanding a detention centre for minors and that psychological follow-up for minors already exists and could be improved. The Government fully respects the principle of non-refoulement enshrined in the 1951 Geneva Convention. A new law on integration was adopted recently and an action programme is being prepared over a number of years to implement the law and to ensure greater solidarity and integration of non-Luxembourg citizens into society. Luxembourg stated that a number of reports from treaty bodies are being drafted, and that it committed itself to producing the overdue report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination as soon as possible. Regarding the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, there are problems of compatibility between the Convention and European Community law. The Convention is a good framework and the delegation said it will try to propose a more in-depth study within the European Union to determine whether it might be possible to find a solution for the ratification of this Convention. Luxembourg attached considerable importance to child psychology and to reforming the psychiatric system in the spirit of open psychological follow-up, ensuring that people are brought out of closed institutions.