CAT/C/UZB/CO/3 page 8 The State party should ensure the protection of women in places of detention and elsewhere, and the establishment of clear procedures for complaints as well as mechanisms for monitoring and oversight. The State party should ensure protection of women by adopting specific legislative and other measures to prevent in practice domestic violence in accordance with the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (General Assembly resolution 48/104) and provide for protection of victims, access to medical, social and legal services and temporary accommodation. Perpetrators should also be held accountable. 22. The Committee remains concerned at trafficking in women for purposes of sexual exploitation. The State party should adopt and strengthen effective measures to prevent and combat trafficking in women. 23. The Committee is concerned about reports about inter-prisoner violence, including sexual violence, in places of detention. The State party should take prompt measures to protect detainees in practice from such inter-prisoner violence. Further, the State party should collect information on such incidents and provide the Committee with its findings and measures taken to prevent, investigate, and prosecute or punish persons found responsible. Non-refoulement 24. The Committee is concerned at the allegations received that individuals have not been afforded the full protection provided for by article 3 of the Convention in relation to expulsion, return or deportation from another country. The Committee is particularly concerned at reports of forcible return of recognized refugees and/or asylum-seekers from neighbouring countries and the unknown conditions, treatment and whereabouts since their arrival in the State party, some of whom were extradited from neighbouring countries. Although the State party’s representatives stated that there is no longer a need for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to be present in the country, the Committee is concerned that at least 700 recognized refugees are resident in the State party and are in need of protection and resettlement. The State party should adopt a refugee law that complies with the terms of the Convention. The State party should invite the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to return and to assist in providing protection and resettlement for the refugee population. It is encouraged to consider becoming party to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Optional Protocol. Other ill-treatment 25. The Committee reiterates its concern with the delay in transferring the prison system from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Ministry of Justice and notes that insufficient explanation was provided. The State party should consider the transfer of the prison system from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Ministry of Justice without delay, with the aim of institutionalizing oversight and accountability for executive decisions in the judicial branch of Government.