A/HRC/13/56 ratification of the Migrant Workers Convention, as recommended by several States. It regretted the fact that the Dominican Republic did not support the recommendation to take measures to ensure that Dominicans of Haitian descent were not denied citizenship or access to civil and birth registration procedures and not arbitrarily subjected to retroactive cancellation of identity document, and urged the Government to reconsider this important recommendation. It also urged the Dominican Republic to support explicitly the recommendations to investigate all reports of human rights violations and to suspend persons suspected of such violations from active duty, to establish an independent body to deal with complaints of abuse by police and to ratify the Convention against Torture and the Convention on Enforced Disappearances. 343. Conectas Direitos Humanos thanked the authorities for giving impetus to the settingup of the Ombudsman office as follow up to the Working Group recommendation 2 from Peru, which partially complied with the Paris Principles on national human rights institutions. However, it expressed concern at the fact that the Government had not accepted a number of important recommendations, in particular the recommendation made by the United Kingdom on impunity and the investigation of killings by the security forces. Reference was made to the lack of confidence in the justice system, caused mainly by cases of administrative corruption, sentences that could be called into question by national courts, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances. Conectas invited the Government to accept and implement all the recommendations related to the rights of people in vulnerable situations and/or minorities. 344. Action Canada for Population and Development, while acknowledging the progress made in the area in the last decade, welcomed the Government’s acceptance of a large number of recommendations, many of which related to women’s rights and the elimination of violence against women. In implementing a number of recommendations, it called on the Government to allocate a larger budget to public policies aimed at the promotion of women’s rights through the effective implementation of the national plan for gender equity (PLANEG II), which had not yet been implemented. It underscored the importance of recommendation 26 in paragraph 88 of the Working Group report, and urged the Government to use a wide and dynamic interpretation of article 37 of the new Constitution, dealing with the right to life from conception to death. It also requested that, in conformity with its obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and other human rights treaties, the Dominican Republic ensured that the new Penal Code included exceptions to the criminalization of abortion, at least in cases where the life or health of a woman was in danger, or in cases of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest. Such exceptions would contribute to decreasing maternal mortality and to protecting women’s right to health. It called upon the Government to ensure that judicial measures of due process were applied to cases of discrimination against, physical attacks on, and murders of gay, lesbian, transgender and transsexual persons. 4. Concluding remarks of the State under review 345. The Dominican Republic thanked all delegations that had recognized all its efforts. It also recognized and congratulated the human rights organizations for their work. 346. With reference to recommendation 13 in paragraph 88 of the Working Group report, the Dominican Republic was up to date with all its reporting obligations. 347. With regard to the recommendation to extend a standing invitation to special procedures, the Dominican Republic noted that it had never rejected the request of any rapporteur wishing to visit the country. The Dominican Republic considered favourably the visit of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, which would need to be organized carefully. 130