A/HRC/41/16 for the Regularization of Foreign Nationals, the National Plan of Action against Trafficking in Persons and Migrant Smuggling, and the plan of action against domestic violence. 34. Georgia noted the accession of the Dominican Republic to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. It welcomed the broadened National Strategic Plan against Child Labour and efforts to fight corruption, including the creation of the Public Ethics Commission. 35. Germany welcomed the adoption in 2014 of Act No. 169-14, on naturalization, and the creation of a registration plan for foreign nationals. It was concerned about the remaining legal gaps that caused statelessness, the situation of women and the ongoing domestic violence against children, as well as critical conditions in Dominican prisons. 36. Guyana commended the Dominican Republic for its efforts to promote and protect human rights. It noted in particular the national strategy regarding violence against women, children and HIV/AIDS and the National Development Strategy for 2030. It further recognized efforts made with a view to the elimination of child labour by 2025. 37. Haiti welcomed efforts to promote and protect human rights. It hailed the appointment of the Ombudsman in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles) and the approval of the National Human Rights Plan. It urged the Government to combat all forms of racism and discrimination. 38. The delegation of the Dominican Republic stated that the issue of de facto unions between adolescents was being addressed under various public policies that sought to reduce teenage pregnancy. The State had prepared the new National Plan for the Reduction of Teenage Pregnancy 2019–2023 and its operational plan for 2019–2020, through a participatory process that had included all key institutions forming part of the National Commission for the Reduction of Teenage Pregnancies. 39. Following previous universal periodic review recommendations, on 21 September 2016, the Dominican Republic had acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, in 2016. The country had signed the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance on 26 September 2018 and had ratified the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on 15 May 2015. It had also begun the process to ratify the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in September 2018. 40. On 10 December 2018, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had launched the first National Human Rights Plan (2018–2022) to expand freedoms and meet the real needs of residents. 41. In 2017, with the cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had launched an information technology tool known as SIMORED, which was a system for the monitoring of the international human rights recommendations made to the Dominican Republic. 42. On the issue of statelessness, the Constitutional Court had taken a decision that had potentially placed several people in a state of vulnerability, but Act No. 169-14 had sought to resolve the situation of children of undocumented foreigners born in the country. Several international organizations had attempted to count that population, but due to a certain methodological interpretation of the National Survey of Immigrants, hundreds of thousands of people in the Dominican Republic had been classed as stateless. 43. In 2014, the Central Electoral Board had audited the civil registry and identified 55,000 people born to foreign parents in an irregular migratory status, known as group A. Dominican documents had been reinstated or recognized in the case of all those people and they were recognized as full Dominicans. Group B corresponded to persons born to foreign parents in irregular migratory status who had never registered in the civil registry. Act No. 169-14 had called for the submission of necessary documentation within 90 days to obtain the right to an expedited special naturalization, which had been extended by 90 further days 5