A/HRC/7/3/Add.6 page 26 (r) Remove non-violent offenders from confinement in pretrial detention facilities, and subject them to non-custodial measures (i.e. guarantees to appear for trial, at any other stage of the judicial proceedings and, should occasion arise, for execution of the judgement); (s) Ensure separation of remand and convicted prisoners; (t) Ensure separation of juvenile and adult detainees, and ensure the deprivation of liberty of children to an absolute minimum as required by article 37 (b) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; (u) Abolish capital punishment or, at a minimum, commute death sentences into prison sentences; (v) Establish centres for the rehabilitation of torture victims; (w) Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, and establish a truly independent monitoring mechanism to visit all places where persons are deprived of their liberty throughout the country, and carry out private interviews; (x) Ensure that security personnel undergo extensive and thorough training, using a curriculum that incorporates human rights education throughout and that includes training in effective interrogation techniques and the proper use of policing equipment, and that existing personnel receive continuing education; and (y) Establish a field presence of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights with a mandate for both monitoring the human rights situation in the country, including the right of unimpeded access to all places of detention, and providing technical assistance particularly in the field of judicial, police and prison reform. 95. The Special Rapporteur encourages the international community to assist the Government of Sri Lanka in the follow-up to these recommendations.