A/HRC/29/8 120. Greece commended the ratification of most international instruments and the ongoing cooperation with the special procedures. It welcomed the improvements in the legal framework regarding persons with disabilities. 121. Guatemala welcomed the hate crimes and discrimination departments within provincial prosecutor’s offices. It expressed concern at the situation of migrant women and the lack of equality before the law of foreigners. 122. Honduras welcomed the hate crimes and discrimination departments within local prosecutor’s offices and the new legislation on human trafficking, forced marriage and enforced disappearances. 123. Hungary noted numerous achievements since the first review of Spain, notwithstanding economic and financial difficulties. Hungary recalled that in 2010 Spain had accepted three recommendations it had put forward, and that were being implemented. 124. India welcomed the adoption of the Strategy for the Social Inclusion of the Gypsy Population. India referred to concerns at the practice of incommunicado detention and encouraged Spain to share information on acts of ethnic profiling. 125. Highlighting its commitment to the international human rights normative framework, the Spanish delegation mentioned the following instruments to which Spain had recently become a party: the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention) and the Council of Europe Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs. 126. The delegation emphasized that its institutional commitment was shown by the active support and participation of Spain in the UPR and in all the work of the Human Rights Council, of which Spain had been a member between 2011 and 2013. The membership of Spain in the Security Council from January 2015 was considered to be another opportunity to promote and defend human rights at the multilateral level. 127. The delegation recalled some of the foreign policy priorities of Spain in the area of human rights: the fight against the death penalty and the promotion of a universal moratorium as a first step towards abolition; the fight against gender-based discrimination and discrimination based on sexual orientation; the human right to water and sanitation; the rights of persons with disabilities; business and human rights; and human rights defenders. 128. Each recommendation received would be carefully studied to with a view to setting forth, within a reasonable time frame, the position of the Government. The delegation stated that it would use the right not to express a position immediately, being aware of the importance of thoroughly analysing which commitments could be undertaken. 129. The delegation pointed out that many of the recommendations and questions received arose from the impact of the fiscal adjustment measures taken to combat the economic and financial crisis. It reiterated that the Government was fully aware of the sacrifices that those measures had involved for many people and that it had taken special care to respecting the criteria of necessity, timeliness, non-regression and nondiscrimination. 130. The delegation concluded by reiterating its commitment to the universal periodic review. 13

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