A/69/44 (g) The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 16 April 2004; (h) The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 15 May 2002. (5) The Committee appreciates the efforts that the State party has made to review its legislation in the areas related to the Convention, in particular its adoption of: (a) (2008); (b) Act No. 029-2008/AN on combating human trafficking and related practices, Act No. 042-2008/AN on the status of refugees in Burkina Faso (2008); (c) Act No. 062-2009/AN on the establishment of the National Human Rights Commission (2009), amended in 2010 by Act No. 039-2010/AN. (6) The Committee also welcomes the steps taken by the State party to change its policies, programmes and administrative procedures to give effect to the Convention, in particular: (a) The establishment of the National Committee to Combat the Practice of Excision and the adoption of the National Action Plan 2008–2012, entitled “Zero tolerance for female genital mutilation”; (b) The adoption of the National Action Plan to Combat the Worst Forms of Child Labour, in June 2012; (c) The adoption of the National Action Plan for Human Rights and the Promotion of Civic Values 2012–2022. (7) The Committee furthermore welcomes the cooperation that the State party has extended to the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, particularly the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants and the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, during visits to Burkina Faso. The Committee encourages the State party to invite the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment to visit the country. C. Main subjects of concern and recommendations Definition and classification of torture as an offence (8) While the Committee takes note of the information provided by the State party concerning the draft bill on the definition, prevention and punishment of the offence of torture and related practices, it is concerned by the fact that, 14 years after acceding to the Convention, the State party has yet to define or to classify torture as a separate offence in its legislation. The Committee is concerned by the fact that acts of torture carry the penalties prescribed, among other things, for malicious wounding, assault and battery or causing bodily harm or injury, which suggests that the penalties do not take into account the grave nature of acts of torture. The Committee continues, therefore, to be concerned by the existence of legal loopholes that allow a situation of impunity for acts of torture to continue, insofar as the bill has neither been adopted nor promulgated (arts. 1 and 4). The State party should step up its efforts to revise the country’s Criminal Code so as to make torture a separate offence. It should at the same time ensure that the definition of torture is consistent with the one set out in article 1 of the Convention. In the light of its general comment No. 2 (2008) on the implementation of article 2 by States parties, the Committee is of the view that if there are significant discrepancies 26 GE.14-12596