A/HRC/18/2 had immediately accepted the vast majority (85 of 121). Moreover, 26 of the accepted recommendations had already been implemented or were being implemented. 228. These recommendations concerned, inter alia, the ratification of international instruments, the fight against racism, asylum and migration policies, the penitentiary system, violence against women, the fight against sexual exploitation of children, LGBT rights and disability rights. 229. Belgium had accepted to establish a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles, to strengthen its asylum and migration policies, to revise its penitentiary conditions and to ratify four international instruments, in particular the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the Third Protocol to the Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949. 230. Since May 2011, the Belgian authorities had turned their attention to the follow-up on the above recommendations. 231. On 2 June 2011, Belgium had ratified the Convention on Enforced Disappearances. The process of the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture was ongoing, and a working group had been created for the establishment of a national human rights institution under the direction of the federal justice service. Meanwhile, other federal and federated institutions had taken the lead on the implementation of the other recommendations. 232. With regard to pending recommendations, Belgium was currently not in a position to accept recommendations 102.1, 2 and 3 regarding the lifting of its reservations on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. A more thorough analysis of its reservations to the Covenant and other human rights conventions was under way. At the same time, Belgium agreed to reconsider the interpretative declaration made under article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. 233. It was also not possible for Belgium to withdraw the declaration made under article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (recommendation 102.7) on nondiscrimination. It considered this declaration to be in conformity with the interpretation of article 2 given by its Constitutional Court, the European Court for Human Rights and the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 234. Belgium had not accepted to elaborate a national plan of action for human rights (recommendations 102.5 and 6) as it had developed a sectorial approach to the promotion and protection of human rights and drawn up several plans of action for priority areas. The establishment of a national human rights institution, as accepted during the session of the Working Group, would not be done by means of a national plan. The institution would be established bearing in mind the division of competencies and the institutional reality of the federal structure. 235. Belgium had rejected recommendation 102.9 to modify its Criminal Code, because sexual violence was already defined as a crime under title VII of the Criminal Code and had no incidence on the priority given to the prosecution and investigation of that crime. The requested modification would therefore have only a symbolic effect and be difficult to implement in the legislative process. Belgium had, however, accepted to extend its national plan of action against domestic violence and all forms of violence against women and girls (recommendations 102.10 and 12). Certain forms of violence, committed in other contexts, were already addressed in the national plan of action against human trafficking. 112 GE.12-17756