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(b)
Ensure effective safeguards for persons in such institutions, including the
right of effective appeal, and through the independent monitoring of conditions, and
establishment of a complaints mechanism and counsel. It should also provide training
to medical and non-medical staff on how to administer non-violent and non-coercive
care;
(c)
Effectively investigate all complaints of violation of the Convention,
including deaths, prosecute the perpetrators, and provide redress to victims.
Data collection
23.
While noting the statistical data supplied by the State party in its report, the
Committee regrets the absence of comprehensive and disaggregated data as requested by
the Committee (arts. 2, 3, 12, 13, 14 and 16).
The State party should compile and provide the Committee with information on
complaints, investigations, prosecution and convictions in cases of torture and illtreatment, expulsions, length of trials of alleged perpetrators of torture and illtreatment, violence against women, and the outcomes of all such complaints and cases,
including redress. To this end, statistical data should be disaggregated by gender, age,
ethnicity, status, nationality, type and location of place of detention or loss of custody,
relevant to the monitoring of the Convention.
24.
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.
25.
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 Convention on the Protection
of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Convention for
the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Optional Protocol to the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and to ratify the Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography, signed in 2012. The State party is also invited to ratify
the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
26.
While noting the de facto moratorium on the death penalty, the Committee invites
the State party to abolish the death penalty de jure and to ratify the Second Optional
Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
27.
The State party is requested to disseminate widely the report submitted to the
Committee and the Committee’s concluding observations through official websites, the
media and non-governmental organizations.
28.
The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 23 November 2013, followup information in response to the Committee’s recommendations relating to (a) monitoring
of places of detention, (b) intimidation, harassment, and violent attacks on human rights
defenders (c) hazing (“dedovschchina”) and ill-treatment within the armed forces, as
contained in paragraphs 11, 12 and 16 of the present document.
29.
The State party is invited to submit its next report, which will be the sixth periodic
report, by 23 November 2016. For that purpose, the Committee will, in due course, submit
to the State party a list of issues prior to reporting, considering that the State party has
agreed to report to the Committee under the optional reporting procedure.
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