A/HRC/8/52 page 108 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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