A/HRC/53/5 63. Bangladesh expressed appreciation for the establishment of the Ministry for Women, Gender and Diversity. 64. Belarus made recommendations. 65. Belgium praised the progress made regarding the rights of women and LGBTQI+ persons. 66. The Plurinational State of Bolivia welcomed the fourth national report of Argentina. 67. Botswana noted the lack of policies on the protection of women in rural areas. 68. Brazil welcomed measures on gender equality and the rights of LGBTQIA+ persons and invited Argentina to demarcate Indigenous lands. 69. Bulgaria highlighted measures for gender equality and expressed its expectation that Argentina would appoint a head of the Office of the Ombudsperson of the Nation. 70. Burkina Faso welcomed the reduction in the number of teenage pregnancies and encouraged Argentina to combat violence against women and children. 71. Cabo Verde commended efforts to prosecute the crimes that had been committed during the dictatorship. It advised creating a long-term assistance plan for victims of trafficking in persons. 72. Cameroon noted improvements in the promotion and protection of human rights. 73. Canada commended the legalization of abortion and the national identification system for non-binary persons. 74. Chile welcomed the creation of the Ministry for Women, Gender and Diversity. 75. The Delegation of Argentina stated that the creation of the Ministry for Women, Gender and Diversity had been a response to a historic struggle and that the National Action Plan for Combating Gender-based Violence for the period 2022–2024 was aimed at going beyond emergency interventions to addressing the structural nature of inequalities and gender-based violence. More than 82,000 interventions had been carried out through the free national hotline for victims of gender-based violence; and the programme “Acompañar” had provided 258,000 victims with a minimum living wage for six months, promoting their economic independence. In addition, under the Micaela Act (2019), 5,612 public officers had received training on gender issues. However, the judiciary still maintained practices that hindered access to justice for victims of gender-based violence. 76. Regarding the rights of Indigenous Peoples, policies had been implemented through four main programmes, relating to territorial demarcation, access to justice, participation, and access to clean water. Currently, the National Institute of Indigenous Affairs recognized 39 ethnic groups, in 1,800 registered communities. Regarding unresolved land issues, the territorial survey was being implemented in 1,207 Indigenous communities and it had already been completed in 857 communities, covering approximately 10,400,000 hectares. Legal defence for the communities was guaranteed, which protected them from eviction and/or the criminalization of their members. Dialogue on the right to free, prior and informed consent was ongoing in the Provinces of Santa Cruz and Neuquén. 77. While the federal penitentiary emergency continued in Argentina, prison overcrowding had declined, from 10 per cent of facilities in March 2020 to 2 per cent in January 2023. A federal penitentiary complex had recently been inaugurated in the Province of Mendoza (512 places), and centres were being built in the Provinces of Buenos Aires (1,152 places) and Santa Fe (464 places). Moreover, electronic wristbands were distributed to facilitate house arrest as an alternative to imprisonment. Training initiatives for prison staff had been carried out and a programme for the provision of personalized attention to members of vulnerable groups, including women, women with children, older persons, LGTBI+ persons and Indigenous Peoples, was being implemented. 78. China expressed appreciation for the achievements concerning development, investment in education and health, the legal protection of vulnerable people, and combating trafficking in persons. 6 GE.23-03427