A/HRC/22/12 115. Saudi Arabia underlined Pakistan’s positive interaction with human rights mechanism. It noted efforts to protect and promote human rights through structural and legal reforms, including the law that allows free and compulsory education for all children. It made recommendations. 116. Slovenia welcomed measures to improve labour rights, integrate a gender perspective in policies and programmes and advance women’s rights. Despite these measures, women continued to face inequalities and discrimination. It welcomed the ratification of international human rights instruments. Slovenia made recommendations. 117. The Minister thanked the delegations for acknowledging the achievements made by Pakistan in the field of human rights. The Minister highlighted the active role of the Pakistani media in exposing the cases that were usually highlighted by international media. 118. The Minister stated that women had played an active and crucial role in politics and society throughout our history. She said that the Government was fully aware of the challenges faced by women in their daily lives and it had taken a number of legal and institutional measures to protect them against harassment, violence and discrimination and to improve their access to education and health. 119. The Adviser on Human Rights said that the issue of enforced disappearances and missing persons had been at the forefront of the national debate in Pakistan. Ongoing proactive judicial and institutionalized efforts reflected the commitment of the Government to address this issue comprehensively. The Working Group has also clarified numerous cases of alleged disappearances pertaining to Pakistan in its recent sessions. 120. The Minister said that the Government was fully aware of the challenges in the realm of human rights; however, he assured that these challenges were not due to discriminatory Government policies or lack of commitment to protect and uphold human rights. The Minister said that the Government and people of Pakistan remained fully committed to democracy, freedom, justice and the rule of law. 121. Finally, the Minister thanked all delegations for the constructive participation, and assured that Pakistan would give serious consideration to all the comments and recommendations that had been made. She thanked the secretariat for the support to this process and the troika for the UPR process. II. Conclusions and/or recommendations** 122. The following recommendations will be examined by Pakistan which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the 22 nd session of the Human Rights Council in March 2013. The response of Pakistan to these recommendations will be included in the outcome report adopted by the Human Rights Council at its 22 nd session in March 2013. 122.1. Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED), the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Optional Protocol to CEDAW, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (OPCRPD) and the Optional Protocol to CRC on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OP-CRC-AC) (Spain); ** 14 Conclusions and recommendations have not been edited.