A/66/44 However, the Committee regrets that the report was submitted eight years late, which hinders the Committee from ongoing analysis of the implementation of the Convention. (3) The Committee appreciates that the replies to the list of issues were submitted within the requested deadline. It also appreciates the open and constructive dialogue with the State party’s high-level delegation, as well as the additional information and explanations provided by the delegation to the Committee. B. Positive aspects (4) The Committee welcomes the ratification of the following international instruments: (a) Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, on 21 June 2005; (b) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, on 12 February 2009; (c) Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, on 24 September 2003; (d) Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, on 24 September 2003; (e) (f) April 2003. Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, on 5 March 2002; United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, on 21 (5) The Committee notes with satisfaction the efforts being made by the State party to amend its legislation in order to ensure greater protection of human rights and welcomes the adoption of: (a) The Criminal Code (Amendment) Act (article 78), in 2003, which incorporates in national law the definition of torture set out in article 1 of the Convention against torture; (b) The Amendments, in 2004, to the Protection from Domestic Violence Act of (c) The Amendments, in 2005 and 2008, to the Child Protection Act 1994; (d) The Combating of Trafficking Act on 21 April 2009; 1997; (e) The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act 2007 (section 5(1)) to abolish mandatory sentences in relation to offences under the Criminal Code and the Dangerous Drugs Act and to restore the sentencing discretion of the Court in 2007; (f) The Imprisonment for Civil Debt (Abolition) Act 2006; (g) The Sex Discrimination Act 2002 which creates a Sex Discrimination Division within the National Human Rights Commission; (h) The Transfer of Prisoners Act passed in 2001. (6) The Committee welcomes the efforts made by the State party to operationalize the National Human Rights Commission in April 2001 and to establish an Office of Ombudsperson for children. 108 GE.11-45568