A/HRC/32/36/Add.1 the benefits and progress that can accrue when a country turns from dictatorship to democratic rule. Poverty has drastically reduced, the economy has diversified and the country has found firm footing among the more developed countries in the world. 9. Equally important, the country has made great progress in areas of democracy and human rights. Political change now happens peacefully, regularly and democratically. In addition, human rights hold an important place on the Government’s agenda. For example, Chile co-sponsored Human Rights Council resolution 15/21 that established the Special Rapporteur’s mandate in 2010 (and resolutions 24/5 and 32/32 that extended it); resolution 27/31 on civil society space; and resolution 17/19 on human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity. 10. On 16 December 2015, the President of Chile enacted Act No. 20885 establishing the Under-Secretariat for Human Rights. This body has been vested with a broad mandate, which the Special Rapporteur welcomes. 1 He calls on the Government to allocate adequate human, material and financial resources to this institution so that it may fulfil its important mandate. 11. Lastly, the Special Rapporteur salutes the work and courage of civil society actors in the country, who have contributed enormously to the progress that Chile has made to date. B. International and regional legal framework 12. Chile has ratified the main international human rights instruments, many of which contain norms and standards pertaining to the freedoms of peaceful assembly and of association, including the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, in 1971; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, in 1972; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in 1972; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, in 1989; the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1990; the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, in 1998; the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, in 2005; the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in 2008; and the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, in 2009. 13. Chile has also ratified several International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions, including the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (No. 87), the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (No. 98) and the Workers’ Representatives Convention (No. 135), in 1999, and the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (No. 169), in 2008. 14. In addition, Chile has ratified several regional instruments that are relevant to the promotion and protection of the freedoms of peaceful assembly and of association, in particular the American Convention on Human Rights, in 1990, and the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, in 1988. 1 4 The mandate of the Under-Secretariat for Human Rights includes, inter alia, putting forward proposals to the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights to design and elaborate policies, plans, programmes and studies related to the promotion and protection of human rights (art. 8 (a)); elaborating the National Human Rights Action Plan (art. 8 (c)); and generating and coordinating opportunities for the participation of civil society in relation to the adoption of such policies, plans and programmes (art. 8 (h)).