CAT/C/NPL/CO/2 page 10 The State party should reinforce international cooperation mechanisms to fight trafficking in persons, prosecute perpetrators, and provide protection and redress to all victims. Child soldiers 33. The Committee is concerned about allegations of children being used by security forces as spies and messengers. The Committee is also concerned about reports of recruitment and abduction of children by CPN-Maoist (art. 16). The State party should take effective measures to prevent security forces using children as spies and messengers. The State party should also take the necessary steps, as a matter of urgency and in a comprehensive manner, to prevent the abduction of children by CPN-Maoist and to facilitate the reintegration of former child soldiers into society. The State party should also consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. 34. The Committee further recommends that the State party: (a) Consider making the declaration under articles 21 and 22 of the Convention; (b) Consider becoming party to the Optional Protocol to the Convention; (c) Consider becoming party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; (d) Consider becoming party to Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II). 35. The State party should provide to the Committee information on the composition, mandate and methods of work of and the investigations and results obtained by the Human Rights Protection Committee, the National Coordination Committee for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights, as well as the human rights cells established within the Police, the Royal Nepalese Army and the Armed Police Force. 36. The Committee requests the State party to provide in its next periodic report detailed statistical data regarding cases of torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment reported to administrative authorities and the related investigations, prosecutions and penal and disciplinary sentences, including details of courts martial, disaggregated by, inter alia, gender, ethnic group, caste, geographical region, and type and location of place of deprivation of liberty, where it occurred, paying particular attention to juveniles in detention. In addition, information is also requested on any compensation and rehabilitation provided to victims.