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Data collection
28.
The Committee regrets the absence of comprehensive and disaggregated data on
complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions of cases of torture and illtreatment by law enforcement and prison personnel, as well as on deaths in custody,
extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, gender-based violence and trafficking.
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 of cases of torture and ill-treatment,
deaths in custody, extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, gender-based
violence and trafficking, as well as on the means of redress, including compensation
and rehabilitation, provided to the victims. Such data should be submitted to the
Committee when compiled.
Other issues
29.
The Committee recommends that the State party make the declarations provided for
in articles 21 and 22 of the Convention in order to recognize the competence of the
Committee to receive and consider communications.
30.
The State party is requested to widely disseminate the report submitted to the
Committee and the present concluding observations, in appropriate languages, through
official websites, the media and non-governmental organizations.
31.
The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 23 May 2015, follow-up
information in response to the Committee’s recommendations relating to: (a) ensuring or
strengthening legal safeguards for detained persons; (b) conducting prompt, impartial and
effective investigations of allegations of torture by law enforcement personnel; and (c)
prosecuting suspects and sanctioning perpetrators of torture or ill-treatment, as contained in
paragraphs 12, 13, 15 and 18 of the present concluding observations.
32.
The Committee invites the State party to submit its next report, which will be its
second periodic report, by 23 May 2018. The Committee invites the State party to agree, by
23 May 2015, to follow the optional reporting procedure in preparing that report. Under this
procedure, the Committee will transmit to the State party of a list of issues prior to the
submission of the report and the State party’s replies to the list of issues will constitute its
next periodic report under article 19 of the Convention.
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