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The State party should compile statistical data relevant to the monitoring of the
implementation of the Convention at the national level, including data on complaints,
investigations, prosecutions and convictions in cases of torture and ill-treatment,
deaths in custody, extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, gender-based
violence, human trafficking, lynching, criminal conduct related to harmful traditional
practices, as well as on means of redress, including compensation and rehabilitation,
provided to victims.
Other issues
29.
The Committee recommends that the State party ratify the Optional Protocol to the
Convention. It also recommends that the State party make the declarations provided for in
articles 21 and 22 of the Convention in order to recognize the competence of the Committee
to receive and consider communications.
30.
The Committee invites the State party to ratify the core United Nations human rights
treaties to which it is not yet a party, namely, the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights and the Optional Protocol thereto, the Optional Protocol to the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Convention for
the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. The Committee also invites the
State party to withdraw its reservations to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
(1951). In addition, the State party should consider becoming a party to the Convention
relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954) and the Convention on the Reduction of
Statelessness (1961).
31.
The State party is requested to disseminate widely the report it submitted to the
Committee and the Committee’s concluding observations, in appropriate languages,
through official websites, the media and non-governmental organizations.
32.
The State party is invited to submit its common core document, in accordance with
the requirements of the common core document contained in the harmonized guidelines on
reporting under the international human rights treaties (HRI/GEN.2/Rev.6).
33.
The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 22 November 2014, followup information in response to the Committee’s recommendations related to (a) ensuring or
strengthening legal safeguards for persons in detention; (b) conducting prompt, impartial
and effective investigations into cases of the involvement of members of law enforcement
agencies in extrajudicial executions and other unlawful killings; and (c) prosecuting
suspects and sanctioning perpetrators of torture or ill-treatment, as contained in
paragraphs 8, 9 and 18 of the present concluding observations. In addition, the Committee
requests follow-up information on remedies and redress to the victims of torture and illtreatment, as contained in paragraph 20 of the present concluding observations.
34.
The State party is invited to submit its next report, which will be the second periodic
report, by 22 November 2017. For that purpose, the Committee invites the State party to
agree, by 22 November 2014, to report under its optional reporting procedure, which entails
the transmittal, by the Committee to the State party, of a list of issues prior to the
submission of the report. The State party’s response to this list of issues will constitute,
under article 19 of the Convention, its next periodic report.
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