A/HRC/27/6 8. Côte d’Ivoire had adopted the law on the insertion of article 85 bis into title VI of the Constitution and on the International Criminal Court; the law on the establishment, remit, organization and operation of the National Human Rights Commission of Côte d’Ivoire in accordance with the Paris Principles; the law on marriage, whose objective was to create de facto and de jure equality in Ivorian households; the law to amend the Nationality Code in relation to the procedure for acquiring nationality by marriage; particular provisions concerning the acquisition of nationality by declaration; the law on rural landownership; and the bill on sustainable development. 9. Côte d’Ivoire had established several operational structures, including the Commission against Gender-Based Violence, the National Commission for the Family and the National Social Cohesion Programme. 10. In March 2012, Côte d’Ivoire had adopted the National Development Plan, a unifying framework for the implementation of all national development policies, structured around six areas: defence, security, justice and the rule of law; education, health, employment and social affairs; economy, agriculture and the private sector; infrastructure, water, energy and mines; environment, quality of life and habitat, public services; and culture, youth and sport. 11. The national policy for the promotion and protection of human rights, introduced by the Ivorian Government in 2011, was monitored by the Ministry of Justice, Human Rights and Civil Liberties. A bill on the protection of human rights defenders had been drafted in cooperation with civil society and adopted by the Council of Ministers in September 2013. 12. Côte d’Ivoire had made progress by acceding to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness in October 2013; to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict in March 2012; and to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in January 2012. 13. Côte d’Ivoire had ratified the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa in March 2012, and the amendment to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal in September 2013. 14. During the previous universal periodic review, Côte d’Ivoire had received 147 recommendations. It had accepted 108 of them, expressed reservations or observations in relation to 37 and rejected 2. Despite the many crises it had gone through, Côte d’Ivoire had spared no effort in ensuring that it implemented a large proportion of the recommendations. 15. The recommendations regarding the country’s political situation and overcoming the crisis had been implemented fully, as was demonstrated by the adoption of the following measures: the organization of elections in the aftermath of the crisis in accordance with the Ouagadougou Agreement, the redeployment of the administration across the entire national territory, the establishment of the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration authority, the establishment of the new National Human Rights Commission in line with the Paris Principles, the creation of the Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the ratification of the Rome Statute and full cooperation with the International Criminal Court, the establishment of a national post-crisis commission of inquiry, the establishment of a special investigation unit, the introduction of human rights and citizenship education into curricula, and the adoption of a national strategy on sustainable development. 16. The recommendations being implemented were primarily related to the progressive realization of economic, social and cultural rights. The Ivorian people welcomed the Government’s efforts in many development sectors, such as health, through the 4 GE.14-07583