A/HRC/PRST/25/1 (g) The implementation of the 400/100 Programme for the construction of 400 social housing units in 100 districts, which was executed with support from the Inter-American Development Bank, and the launch of the first phase of a programme for the construction of 3,000 social housing units on 16 May 2013; (h) The establishment of the Interministerial Human Rights Committee to coordinate and harmonize public human rights policies. 2. The Council welcomes the signature of the El Rancho Accord on 14 March 2014, which gives voice to the desire of Haitian political actors to move forward with the planning of elections and the consolidation of democracy in Haiti. To that end, the Council also welcomes the publication of the electoral law and the law on political parties, which pave the way for legislative and local elections to be held in late October 2014. The Council encourages the political authorities of Haiti to maintain their spirit of cooperation and to take swift action with a view to scheduling elections; 3. The Council welcomes the reaffirmation of the commitment of the Haitian authorities to improve the living conditions of Haitian women and men by, inter alia, devoting greater attention to respect for human rights. The Council also welcomes the priorities set out in that regard by the President of Haiti (known as the ‘five Es’ in French): ensuring the rule of law, education, the environment, employment and energy, along with the recent addition of elections to that list. It urges the Government of Haiti to pursue these priorities in a way that will produce concrete, sustainable results for the population of Haiti; 4. Within this context, the Council encourages the Government of Haiti to work to strengthen the rule of law by, inter alia, combating impunity, crime and its causes, and the use of prolonged pretrial detention so as to ensure the operation of public institutions and services and the enjoyment of all human rights; 5. The Council also encourages the Government of Haiti to strengthen national human rights institutions, particularly the Office of Citizen Protection, which the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights accredited with an A status on 4 December 2013 in recognition of its compliance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (Paris Principles). The Council further encourages the authorities of Haiti to redouble their efforts to strengthen judicial institutions and to make them fully compatible with the commitments made by Haiti in relation to respect for human rights; 6. The Council urges the Government of Haiti to continue to adopt the necessary political and legal measures to safeguard the rights of members of vulnerable groups, including women, children, particularly child domestic workers, and persons with disabilities, to increase women’s participation in political affairs and to continue to combat gender-based violence and discrimination; 7. The Council is aware of the many obstacles to development in Haiti and the difficulties which the population of Haiti and its leaders continue to encounter in the aftermath of the earthquake of 12 January 2010. It recognizes that families whose members were separated by the earthquake, including unaccompanied children and displaced persons in camps and outside the scope of the main rescue operations, are more vulnerable to human rights violations and that the full enjoyment of civil and political, economic, social and cultural human rights constitutes a factor in peace, stability and development in Haiti; 2 GE.14-13666