A/HRC/28/7 independence. Additionally, the State party had been working to review and improve all Bolivian legislation. 108. Regarding comments made on corruption, the Plurinational State of Bolivia indicated that the claims were unjustified. Since the implementation of the Assembly, a number of laws had been introduced to address corruption. Any former government officials, including some who had served in the current government, who had been tried were serving custodial sentences for corruption. The Plurinational State of Bolivia was fighting a decisive, head-on battle against all forms of corruption. 109. The Plurinational State of Bolivia had not adopted legislation which was against children. The legislation adopted took into account the current situation in the State party, as in other countries. 110. Transitional measures had been put in place to recognize and protect defined age groups of children, to achieve minimum labour conditions which would allow them to work, protected in some cases under various forms of supervision, control and monitoring. The Plurinational State of Bolivia would succeed in putting in place protection mechanisms and hopefully in the next five years during the next cycle of the UPR, it would be able to say with satisfaction and dignity that it had eliminated child labour, particularly for younger children, in accordance with the agreements which it respected and had ratified. 111. With regard to freedom of expression, the Plurinational State of Bolivia reiterated that no journalists were persecuted, in prison, or being prosecuted. All the trials that were under way were based on the Printing Act, which was a law that was defended by the journalism sector; it was a very old law, almost 100 years old. He reiterated that additional laws had been adopted, while journalists had wide-ranging freedoms in his country. 112. To conclude, the Plurinational State of Bolivia thanked delegations for their congratulations on the State party’s becoming a member of the Human Rights Council. The State party would make its best efforts to contribute to constructing a human rights culture, in harmony with Mother Earth, in which all countries submitted equally to all instruments and institutions, in order that, together and collectively, States could build a better world in which human rights were protected. II. Conclusions and/or recommendations** 113. The recommendations formulated during the interactive dialogue/listed below have been examined by the Plurinational State of Bolivia and enjoy the support of the State party: 113.1 Incorporate the Rome Statute into national law (Mexico); 113.2 Consider ratifying the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Convention against Discrimination in Education (Ghana); 113.3 Ratify the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education and ensure that primary education is free and compulsory for all (Portugal); 113.4 Ratify the Protocol to the American Convention for Human Rights (Norway); ** Conclusions and recommendations will not be edited. 13