CAT/C/HND/CO/2 40. Recalling the Committee’s previous recommendation (CAT/C/HND/CO/1, para. 11), the State party should take appropriate measures to ensure effective and impartial investigations into all outstanding cases of alleged enforced disappearance, prosecute the perpetrators and, where appropriate, punish them and provide compensation to the families of the victims. The State party should ensure that the relatives of disappeared persons receive comprehensive information about their rights as victims. Redress and rehabilitation 41. While noting the existence of a bill on comprehensive compensation for victims of human rights violations, the Committee is concerned that, since the consideration of the initial report in 2009, no claims for redress for acts of torture or ill-treatment have been submitted, nor have the courts ordered any measures of redress or compensation for victims of torture. Nevertheless, the Committee appreciates the information provided by the delegation on the amicable settlement reached with representatives of the families of the persons who perished in the fire that broke out in the Comayagua prison on 14 February 2012. The Committee is also concerned that it has not received information on the implementation of programmes to provide redress, including treatment for trauma and other forms of rehabilitation, to victims of torture (art. 14). 42. The Committee would like to draw the State party’s attention to its general comment No. 3 (2012) on the implementation of article 14 by States parties, which describes in detail the nature and scope of States parties’ obligation to provide full redress and the means for full rehabilitation to victims of torture. In particular, the Committee urges the State party to: (a) Consider the possibility of conducting a needs assessment with respect to redress for victims of torture in collaboration with specialized civil society organizations; (b) Provide all victims of torture or ill-treatment with full redress for the harm they have suffered, which should include fair and adequate compensation and as full rehabilitation as possible. Human rights defenders and other representatives of civil society who are at risk 43. The Committee condemns the numerous deadly attacks carried out against human rights defenders, journalists and environmental activists since the consideration of the initial report in 2009. In this regard, the Committee finds it regrettable that the delegation of the State party has not provided any further information about the investigations that point to the involvement of a serving army officer in the murder of Berta Cáceres and that it has not commented on news reports indicating that her name was on a blacklist held by an elite army unit. The Committee is also concerned by reports of threats, assaults and other acts of intimidation against human rights defenders and civil society representatives, as well as the apparent impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators of those acts. While noting the recent adoption of the Act on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, Social Communicators and Justice Officials, the Committee expresses its concern about the lack of information on specific measures taken in response to the 38 requests for protection filed with the Directorate-General of the National System for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders as at June 2016. Lastly, the Committee also expresses its concern about reports of public statements made by high-ranking State officials discrediting the work of human rights defenders and journalists, thereby putting them at risk of physical harm (arts. 2, 12, 13 and 16). GE.16-14849 9