A/HRC/50/8 Bolivarian National Intelligence Service and the Directorate-General of Military CounterIntelligence had been under the responsibility of her Ministry. 27. The Vice-Minister of Internal Policy and Legal Security of the Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, Justice and Peace highlighted the professionalization of the police through revision of the standard procedures for controlling demonstrations and on the progressive use of force. She also stressed the restructuring of the Bolivarian National Police, the establishment of a national human rights commissioner to investigate cases of human rights violations involving police bodies, the attention given to victims, the organic law on the right of women to have a life free from violence, and the national plan against trafficking for the period 2021 to 2025. 28. After the last recommending State had spoken, the Director-General of Human Rights Protection of the Public Ministry highlighted the constitutional principles of equality and non-discrimination which guaranteed that every citizen had access to justice. She shared figures on the numbers of public security officials prosecuted, arrested and sentenced, as well as on the numbers of criminal cases processed, and highlighted the establishment of the office to assist victims in the area of human rights. She also stressed the fight against corruption, and highlighted the Career Regularization Plan for Prosecutors. 29. A magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice highlighted the establishment of tribunals to address violence against women, and the body responsible for national coordination in the penal system regarding the responsibility of adolescents, as well as the use of inclusive and non-sexist language in Supreme Court documents and resolutions. The use of telematics to access justice in order to ensure due process during the pandemic was also mentioned. National legislation requires judges in criminal proceedings to request the immediate freeing of persons arbitrarily detained and prohibits the trial of civilians in military courts. 30. The Executive Vice-President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela stressed the importance of participatory democracy through electoral processes held. In closing, she thanked the countries that had highlighted the impact that unilateral coercive measures had had on human rights, and the achievements of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela under these conditions. She requested the ending of unilateral coercive measures against her country and other countries in the same situation. II. Conclusions and/or recommendations 31. The following recommendations will be examined by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the fiftieth session of the Human Rights Council: 31.1 Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance as early as possible (Japan); 31.2 Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Peru); 31.3 Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Argentina); 31.4 Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Slovakia); 31.5 Sign the Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action, and ratify the Arms Trade Treaty (Panama); 31.6 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Burkina Faso); 31.7 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Togo); 6