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redress and compensation measures ordered by the courts and provided to victims of
torture. This information should include the number of requests made, the number
granted, and the amounts ordered and actually provided in each case. In addition, the
State party should provide information on any on-going reparation programmes,
including treatment of trauma and other forms of rehabilitation provided to victims of
torture and ill-treatment, as well as the allocation of adequate resources to ensure the
effective functioning of such programmes.
Migrant domestic workers
(22) The Committee expresses its concern at reports referring to widespread abuse of
migrant domestic workers, and in particular, women. It appears that this fragile group is
constantly exposed to ill-treatment in complete impunity and without legal protection. The
Committee also regrets the lack of statistics regarding the number and type of complaints
filed with authorities that assume supervision of domestic labour, and on how these
complaints are resolved. The Committee takes note of the State party’s commitment made
by its representatives during the consideration of its report at the eighth session of the
universal periodic review in May 2010, to make efforts to create legislation against human
trafficking and the smuggling of migrants in line with the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol thereto (arts. 1, 2 and 16).
The State party should adopt, as a matter of urgency, labour legislation covering
domestic work and providing legal protection to migrant domestic workers, in
particular, women, in its territory against exploitation, ill-treatment and abuse. The
State party should also provide the Committee with statistics, including on the
number and type of complaints filed with authorities, as well as the action taken to
solve cases that caused these complaints.
Violence against women
(23) The Committee notes with concern numerous allegations of violence against women
and domestic violence, on which the State party has not provided information. The
Committee is concerned at the absence of a specific law on domestic violence, as well as
the lack of statistical information on the overall complaints of domestic violence reported
and the number of investigations, convictions and punishments meted out (arts. 2 and 16).
The Committee:
(a)
Calls upon the State party to enact, as a matter of urgency, legislation to
prevent, combat and criminalize violence against women, including domestic violence;
(b)
Recommends that the State party carry out research and data collection
on the extent of domestic violence, and provide the Committee with statistical data on
complaints, prosecutions and sentences;
(c)
Encourages the State party to organize the participation of its public
officials in rehabilitation and legal assistance programmes and to conduct broad
awareness campaigns for officials such as judges, law officers, law enforcement agents
and welfare workers, who are in direct contact with victims. The population at large
should be made aware of those programmes.
Human trafficking
(24) The Committee is concerned at the lack of specific legislation to prevent, combat
and criminalize human trafficking. The Committee is further concerned at the lack of
information on trafficking in persons, including the existing legislations and statistics,
particularly the number of complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions of
perpetrators of trafficking, and the lack of information on practical measures adopted to
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