A/HRC/13/10 workers were still excluded from vocational training and about future plans in this regard. It enquired about the availability of national plans to implement CRC. 81. Morocco welcomed the creation of an Inter-Ministerial Working Group and considered the commitment for the follow-up to this review as a good practice. Morocco noted the direct applicability of the international instruments ratified in Portugal. Morocco welcomed the human rights education and awareness raising programmes, particularly within the educational system, requesting more information about them, particularly on the cultural dimension within human rights education. Morocco made recommendations. 82. Bangladesh praised Portugal’s openness for managed migration. Bangladesh expressed concerns regarding the ill-treatment of migrants by the law enforcing officials, and on the discrimination and ill-treatment against the Roma community that continue to suffer from prejudice and discrimination. Bangladesh noted concerns about the existence and extent of human trafficking, particularly regarding women for the purposes of economic and sexual exploitation. Bangladesh made recommendations. 83. Portugal informed that one of the main aims of the criminal reform in 2007 was to broaden the scope of alternative sentences to imprisonment. Alternative measures have since proven to be effective and secure serving the purposes of criminal justice system on repression and reintegration. 84. Portugal noted the training school for judges and prosecutors that included a general curriculum on human rights issues and the special mandatory training for judges and prosecutors on criminal law, discrimination and domestic violence. Human Rights and Law Enforcement — an OHCHR human rights training manual for the police — had been translated into Portuguese and used. 85. Portugal noted that all prisoners had access to sanitary installations at all times inside their cells. Very few allegations of ill-treatment in prisons were recognized by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture. If there was an allegation, it shall be investigated and those responsible were subject to punishments, both disciplinary and criminal penalty. A new law on the enforcement of sentences approved in September 2008 included the possibility to make an appeal to a judge from any decisions made from the prison director. 86. With regard to raising awareness for fighting gender stereotype in the media, Portugal noted that the CIG works to create an enabling environment for equality also by promoting balanced and non-stereotyped images of women and men. 87. Portugal noted that the first Plan of Action for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities together with several specific action plans, namely the national plan to promote accessibility in articulation with the adoption of legislation for accessibility in terms of physical spaces and housing, aimed to improve the living quality of persons with disabilities, and to ensure access to the generally available goods to allow their full participation in society. 88. Portugal informed that there was growing awareness on female genital mutilation, which has led to the criminalization of this practice and the adoption of a specific plan in 2009 aimed to prevent female genital mutilation through awareness raising, training, and support for women and girls who are subject to it. 89. Portugal informed that in 2007 the Government launched the Initiative for Childhood and Adolescence, a comprehensive approach to the rights of the child set out in CRC. The initiative of 2009–2010 is a comprehensive action plan to defend the universality of the rights of the child aimed at reinforcing cooperation and articulation between institutions and civil society organizations responsible for and concerned with the protection of the rights of the child. 13