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access to rehabilitative as well as legal, medical, and psychological services.
Accordingly, the Committee recommends that the State party should adopt a
comprehensive strategy to combat human trafficking and its causes. The State party
should also investigate all allegations of trafficking and ensure that perpetrators are
prosecuted and sentenced to appropriate penalties that take into account the serious
nature of their crimes. The State party is requested to provide information on
measures taken to assist victims of trafficking, as well as statistical data on the
number of complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions involving
trafficking.
Corporal punishment of children
23.
The Committee notes with concern that the use of corporal punishment as a
disciplinary measure in the home is not prohibited, according to the interpretation of the
provisions of the Criminal Code (1995), the Family Code (2002) and the Constitution (art.
16).
The State party should consider amending its Criminal Code and revised Family Code
to prohibit the use of corporal punishment in all settings, including the home, and to
raise public awareness of positive, participatory and non-violent forms of discipline.
Data collection
24.
The Committee is concerned about the lack of full and detailed data on complaints,
investigations, prosecutions, convictions and redress in cases of torture and ill-treatment
involving law enforcement, security, military and prison personnel (arts. 2, 12, 13 and 16).
The State party should collect relevant statistical data on the monitoring of the
implementation of the Convention at the national level, including on complaints,
investigations, prosecutions, convictions and redress (compensation and rehabilitation
for victims) in cases of torture and ill-treatment. The State party should include this
data in its next periodic report.
25.
The Committee recommends that the State party should strengthen its cooperation
with United Nations human rights mechanisms, including by permitting visits from, inter
alia, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights defenders.
26.
Noting the commitment the State party made during the dialogue, the Committee
recommends that the State party ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment as soon as
possible.
27.
The Committee further recommends that the State party should make the
declarations envisaged under articles 21 and 22 of the Convention to recognize the
competence of the Committee to receive and consider complaints of violations of the
Convention.
28.
The Committee invites the State party to ratify the core United Nations human rights
treaties to which it is not yet a party, namely the International Convention on the Protection
of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Convention on
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the International Convention for the Protection
of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
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