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National Plan of Action for Human Rights
(20) While noting the information provided by the State party and its delegation that a
Plan Action on Human Rights will be shortly finalized, the Committee regrets that this Plan
aimed at providing a general framework for the promotion and the protection of human
rights in the State party, including prevention and protection against torture, has not yet
been adopted (art. 2).
The State party should speed up the adoption of the Plan of Action on Human Rights
and implement it in order to afford effective protection of human rights, including
against torture. The State party should take into account the recommendations made
by the Committee and consult the civil society when drafting and implementing such
plan.
Data collection
(21) The Committee regrets the absence of comprehensive and disaggregated data on
complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions of cases of torture and illtreatment by law enforcement, security, military and prison personnel, as well as on death
row prisoners, ill-treatment of migrant workers, trafficking in humans and domestic and
sexual violence.
The State party should compile statistical data relevant to the monitoring of the
implementation of the Convention at the national level, including data on complaints,
investigations, prosecutions and convictions of persons guilty of torture and illtreatment, ill-treatment of migrant workers, death row prisoners, trafficking in
humans and domestic and sexual violence, disaggregated by age, sex, ethnicity and
type of crime, as well as on means for redress, including compensation and
rehabilitation, provided to the victims.
(22) The Committee invites the State party to consider ratifying the core United Nations
human rights treaties to which it is not yet party, namely, the International Convention on
the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families; the
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance;
the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
aiming at the abolition of the death penalty; the Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; the Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography; and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities.
(23) The Committee recommends that the State party adopt the Criminal Court Bill
aiming at incorporating the provisions of the Rome Statute on the International Criminal
Court in domestic law.
(24) The Committee invites the State party to consider making the declaration required
under article 22 of the Convention relating to individual complaints.
(25) The Committee invites the State party to present its next periodic report in
accordance with its reporting guidelines and to observe the page limit of 40 pages for the
treaty-specific document. The Committee also invites the State party to update its common
core document in accordance with the requirements of the common core document
contained in the harmonized guidelines on reporting under the international human rights
treaties (HRI/GEN.2/Rev.6), approved by the Inter-Committee meeting of the human rights
treaty bodies, and to observe the page limit of 80 pages for the common core document.
The treaty-specific document and the common core document together constitute the
reporting obligation of the State party under the Convention.
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