CAT/C/TJK/CO/2 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 of cases of torture and ill-treatment, trafficking and domestic and sexual violence, as well as of means of redress, including compensation and rehabilitation provided to the victims. 23. The Committee recommends that the State party consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as soon as possible. It also invites the State party to consider ratifying the other core United Nations human rights treaties to which it is not yet party, namely the the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 24. The Committee also recommends that the State party consider making the declarations under articles 21 and 22 of the Convention, in order to recognize the competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications. 25. The State party is requested to disseminate widely the report submitted to the Committee and the Committee’s concluding observations, in appropriate languages, through official websites, the media and non-governmental organizations. 26. The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 23 November 2013, followup information in response to the Committee’s recommendations relating to: (a) conducting prompt, impartial and effective investigations; (b) ensuring or strengthening legal safeguards for persons detained; and (c) prosecuting suspects and sanctioning perpetrators of torture or ill-treatment, as contained in paragraphs 8(a) and (b), 9(a), 11(c), and 14(a), (b), (c), and (d) of the present document. 27. The State party is invited to submit its next report, which will be the third periodic report, by 23 November 2016. To that purpose, the Committee invites the State party to accept, by 23 November 2013, to report under its optional reporting procedure, consisting in the transmittal, by the Committee to the State party, of a list of issues prior to the submission of the periodic 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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