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The State party should enact legislation to include explicit provisions on the right of
victims of torture and ill-treatment to redress, including fair and adequate
compensation and rehabilitation, in accordance with article 14 of the Convention. It
should, in practice, provide all victims of torture or ill-treatment with full redress, in
line with general comment No. 3 (2012) on the implementation of article 14 by States
parties.
Data collection
20.
The Committee regrets the absence of a unified register containing comprehensive
and disaggregated data, including the nationality and ethnicity of victims, on complaints,
investigations, prosecutions and convictions of cases of torture and ill-treatment by law
enforcement, security, military and prison personnel, and on cases of trafficking and
domestic and sexual violence.
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, with regard to cases of torture and illtreatment, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, trafficking and domestic
and sexual violence, as well as on the means of redress, including compensation and
rehabilitation, provided to the victims.
Follow-up procedure
21.
The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 15 May 2016, follow-up
information in response to the Committee’s recommendations relating to: (a) prolonged
detention in police detention and arrest centres; (b) excessive use of force by law
enforcement officials; and (c) the national preventive mechanism (see paras. 8, 9 and 16
above).
Other issues
22.
The Committee invites the State party to consider ratifying the other United Nations
human rights treaties to which it is not yet party, namely the International Convention on
the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance,
the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities.
23.
The Committee recommends that the State party consider making the declarations
envisaged under articles 21 and 22 of the Convention, in order to recognize the competence
of the Committee to receive and consider communications.
24.
The State party is requested to disseminate widely the report submitted to the
Committee and the present concluding observations in appropriate languages through
official websites, the media and non-governmental organizations.
25.
The State party is invited to submit its next report, which will be its third periodic
report, by 15 May 2019. For that purpose, the Committee will, in due course, transmit to the
State party a list of issues prior to reporting, considering that the State party has accepted to
report to the Committee under the optional reporting procedure.
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