CAT/C/ETH/CO/1 visits to places of deprivation of liberty and to examine complaints about alleged violations of human rights, including those protected by the Convention. The Committee notes the lack of follow-up on the suggestions and recommendations made by EHRC in its Correctional Facilities Monitoring Visit Report and the limited powers of EHRC to initiate prosecutions in cases where torture or ill-treatment is found to have occurred (arts. 2, 12, 13 and 16). The State party should strengthen the role and mandate of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to undertake regular and unannounced visits to places of deprivation of liberty and to issue independent findings and recommendations on such visits. It should also give due weight to the conclusions of EHRC on individual complaints, including by communicating such conclusions to the public prosecutor’s office in cases where torture or illtreatment is found to have occurred. The State party is requested to provide information, including statistical data, on the complaints examined by EHRC in relation to alleged torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and to indicated whether any such cases have been submitted to the competent authorities for prosecution. Furthermore, the State party should intensify its efforts to ensure that EHRC is in full compliance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (Paris Principles). Conditions of detention 26. The Committee notes the State party’s efforts to reflect the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, the Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners, the Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment and the Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials in its legislation and administrative regulations for the treatment of prisoners and detainees (see State party report, paras. 54–55). However, the Committee remains seriously concerned about consistent reports of overcrowding, poor hygienic and sanitary conditions, lack of sleeping space, food and water, the absence of adequate health care, including for pregnant women and HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis patients, the absence of specialized facilities for prisoners and detainees with disabilities, co-detention of juveniles with adults, inadequate protection of juvenile prisoners and children detained with their mothers from violence in prisons and places of detention in the State party (arts. 11 and 16). The State party should take urgent measures to bring the conditions of detention in police stations, prisons and other places of detention into line with the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, as well as with other relevant standards, in particular by: (a) Reducing prison overcrowding, including by considering noncustodial forms of punishment and, in the case of juveniles, by ensuring that detention is only used as a measure of last resort; (b) Improving the quality and quantity of food and water as well as the health care provided to detainees and prisoners, including children, pregnant women and HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis patients; (c) Improving the conditions of detention for minors and ensuring that they are detained separately from adults, in accordance with international standards for the administration of juvenile justice, and enabling incarcerated and detained mothers to stay together with their dependent infants, if appropriate beyond the age of 18 months; 10