CAT/C/NLD/CO/7 (b) Guarantee impartial counselling services and psychological and social support for all intersex children and their parents, so as to inform them of the consequences of unnecessary and non-urgent surgery and other medical treatment to decide on the sex of the child and the possibility of postponing any decision on such treatment or surgery until the persons concerned can decide by themselves; (c) Guarantee that full, free and informed consent is ensured in connection with medical and surgical treatments for intersex persons and that non-urgent, irreversible medical interventions are postponed until a child is sufficiently mature to participate in decision-making and give effective consent; (d) Undertake investigation of instances of surgical interventions or other medical procedures performed on intersex persons without effective consent and prosecute and, if found responsible, punish perpetrators. It should also ensure that the victims are provided with redress including adequate compensation. Redress 54. While noting that the law implementing directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards for the rights and protection of crime victims entered into force in 2017, the Committee is concerned at the absence of information on redress, including compensation measures ordered by the courts or other State bodies and actually provided to victims of torture and ill-treatment or their families in Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten (art. 14). 55. The State party should ensure in law that victims of torture or ill-treatment obtain full and effective redress and reparation, including compensation and the means for as full rehabilitation as possible. In particular, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten should reinforce their efforts to overcome the difficulties in law and in practice in providing adequate compensation to victims. The Committee draws the State party’s attention to its general comment No. 3 (2012) on the implementation of article 14 by States parties, in which it elaborates on the nature and scope of the obligations of States parties to provide full redress to victims of torture and illtreatment. The State party should also provide the Committee with information on redress and on compensation measures, including means of rehabilitation ordered by the courts or other State bodies and actually provided to victims of torture and illtreatment. Data collection 56. While taking note of the data provided in the annex to the State party’s report, the Committee is concerned at the lack of disaggregated data on the number of complaints, investigations, prosecutions, convictions and sanctions related to cases of torture and illtreatment throughout the State party. 57. Recalling the Committee’s previous recommendations (CAT/C/NLD/CO/5-6, para. 30), the State party should collect and provide the Committee with detailed statistical data, disaggregated by crime, ethnicity, age and sex, relevant to the monitoring of the implementation of the Convention at the national level, including data on complaints, investigations, prosecutions, convictions and penal or disciplinary sanctions related to cases of torture and ill-treatment by law enforcement, security, military and prison personnel, as well as on means of redress, including the compensation and rehabilitation provided to the victims. Follow-up procedure 58. The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 7 December 2019, information on follow-up to the Committee’s recommendations on non-refoulement, medical examinations as part of the asylum procedure and the National Agency for the Prevention of Torture (see paras. 12 (a) and (b), 14 (a) and (b) and 23 above). In that context, the State party is invited to inform the Committee about its plans for implementing, within the coming reporting period, some or all of the remaining recommendations in the concluding observations. 13

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