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(d)
Ensure that victims of domestic, including sexual, violence benefit from
protection, including restraining orders for the perpetrators, and have access to
medical and legal services, including psychosocial counselling, rehabilitation and safe
and adequately funded shelters.
Trafficking in human beings
14.
The Committee is concerned that the Criminal Code does not specifically
criminalize trafficking in persons and at the absence of legislative and policy measures to
combat trafficking in persons for the purposes of forced labour or prostitution (arts. 2, 10,
12, 13 and 16).
The State party should:
(a)
Amend the Criminal Code with a view to specifically prohibiting
trafficking in human beings as a criminal offence;
(b)
Promptly, effectively and impartially investigate, prosecute and punish
trafficking in persons and related practices;
(c)
Increase the protection of and provide redress to victims of trafficking,
including legal, medical and psychological aid and rehabilitation, as well as adequate
shelters and assistance in reporting incidents of trafficking to the police;
(d)
Provide specialized training to the police, prosecutors and judges on
effective prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of acts of trafficking,
and inform the general public through media campaigns of the criminal nature of
such acts.
Asylum
15.
The Committee notes that national laws do not provide for the granting of asylum or
refugee status and that there is no procedure for determination of refugee status (art. 3).
The State party should create a procedure for determination of refugee status for
persons who could be recognized as refugees. It should also take clear legal measures
to ensure that it does not expel, return (refouler) or extradite a person to another State
where there are substantial grounds for believing that he or she would be in danger of
being subjected to torture.
Training
16.
The Committee is concerned that law enforcement officials do not receive specific
training on the provisions of the Convention, including the absolute prohibition of torture,
and that medical professionals dealing with persons deprived of liberty and asylum seekers
do not receive training on the Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishment (the Istanbul
Protocol) (art. 10).
The State party should ensure training for law enforcement personnel, prison staff,
border guards, judges and prosecutors on the absolute prohibition of torture and
other provisions of the Convention. It should also ensure that the Istanbul Protocol is
included in the training for all medical professionals and other public officials
involved in work with persons deprived of their liberty and asylum seekers.
Solitary confinement
17.
While noting that no detainees have been placed in solitary confinement for more
than seven days since 2008 in prisons in the State party, the Committee is concerned that
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