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open and ongoing invitation for cooperation with the special procedures and mechanisms, both
from the United Nations system and the Inter-American system, so that they can come and see in
situ what the human rights situation is in the country; to support the adoption of new instruments
for protecting and promoting human rights internationally;
(b) Second, in the area of application, dissemination and promotion of human rights:
domestically, this includes strengthening the response and follow-up to the international
commitments taken on by Ecuador; implementation of the evaluation process of the national plan
of action; promoting the work of the National Commission for the Application of International
Humanitarian Law and the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against
Torture and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance;
(c) Third, harmonization of domestic law with international human rights norms,
amendments to the Criminal Code, adoption of the anti-discrimination law and promoting the
adoption of a law on crimes against humanity with a view to incorporating the provisions of the
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court;
(d) Fourth, compliance with international obligations, design and implementation of a
follow-up system of international commitments;
(e) Fifth, penitentiary rehabilitation: designing a model for social insertion and a model
for an infrastructure compliant with human rights standards; building of seven new penitentiary
centres based on the model of social insertion;
(f) Sixth, human rights training for public civil servants, generating continuous training
processes for public officials and officials in the area of justice;
(g) Seventh, preventing and combating the crime of trafficking in persons; effective
implementation of a national plan of action to combat the crime of trafficking in persons;
(h) Eight, commitments undertaken to promote the collective rights of afro-Ecuadorian
and indigenous peoples, dissemination through a broad process of the outcome of the conference
on the elimination of racial discrimination to be held next year in Geneva; adoption of the
recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and
fundamental freedoms of indigenous people with regard to free and equal access to services in
the administration of justice;
(i) Ninth, voluntary commitments regarding the rights of children, young adolescents
and adult senior citizens, development of a concerted agenda and policies for their protection;
establishment of an institutional network to eradicate child labour; dissemination of the legal
framework which contemplates young people as subjects of rights, through the development of
an agenda for social protection and promotion of their rights, as a cross-cutting issue within all
state programmes; dissemination of the rights of senior citizens based on the 2002 International
Convention of Madrid and the Law on the Senior Adult;
(j) Tenth, in the area of women’s rights, promotion of democratic governance with
equal opportunities for men and women; promoting a life free of violence, through the adoption
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