A/HRC/25/60/Add.1 (n) sentences; Provide a swift appeal process for the review of convictions and (o) Divert some of the funds used for incarceration to support the work of the Judicial Committee established to consider alternative measures. 100. With regard to conditions of detention, the Government should: (a) Recall that, regardless of the level of development of the country, it is obliged to ensure minimum standards of conditions of detention in accordance with the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners; (b) Provide the minimum acceptable amount of floor space and cubic quantity of air per inmate, a separate bed and adequate sanitary conditions; (c) Urgently improve access to, and the quality of, health care provided by the infirmaries by investing in them financially to ensure they provide a minimum standard of medical care, and employ a sufficient number of qualified doctors, including for psychiatric and dental care, in addition to medical assistants and nurses; (d) Establish an independent body under the Ministry of Health to regulate and improve the quantity and quality of the food; (e) Partner with the Ministry of Agriculture and the private sector to find additional resources to expand the farming programme to more prisons, especially the open prisons, in order to offset food costs and provide better variety and nutrition. Even prisons with a higher security classification could establish a secure setting and designate physical space inside the grounds for farming projects; (f) End the practice of denying children under 18 the right to visit family members in prison, and establish meaningful family visits, including the ability to communicate in private without being overheard by renovating facilities to include basic amenities such as family visit centres; (g) Realize the principles of rehabilitation and reintegration and seek assistance to provide all prisoners with the opportunity to access educational and work opportunities, including sustainable training programmes, such as in farming, cooking, trades and small business, in order to gain relevant skills that can be applied upon release; (h) Seek donations from churches and NGOs to provide the prisons with books, writing materials and equipment such as sewing machines and woodwork or metalwork supplies and to support recreational activities. 101. With regard to the death penalty, the Government should: (a) Give effect to the white paper of the Constitutional Review Implementation Committee, which was tasked with implementing the recommendations of the Constitutional Review Commission, and hold a referendum to change the Constitution, including an official moratorium and abolition of the death penalty; (b) Commute all outstanding death sentences to term sentences and formalize the current de facto moratorium on the death penalty by abolishing the death penalty for murder, a statutory offence which does not require the Constitution to be amended; (c) Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty; (d) Develop a public awareness strategy, in consultation with NGOs, to educate civil society about the cruel and inhuman treatment that results in persons being sentenced to death and detained for years on death row. 20

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