CAT/C/MOZ/CO/1 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. 10

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