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The State party should ensure that all victims of torture and ill-treatment obtain
redress and have an enforceable right to fair and adequate compensation, including
the means for as full rehabilitation as possible. It should further collect data on the
number of victims who have received compensation and rehabilitation including the
amount provided.
Training
(20) While welcoming the positive measures taken by the State party by developing
training programmes on police ethics and human rights for police officers and introducing a
feedback system, the Committee remains concerned about insufficient monitoring and
evaluation of the effectiveness of these programmes in preventing and detecting torture and
ill-treatment (art. 10).
The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a)
Ensure that training on the Manual on Effective Investigation and
Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment (Istanbul Protocol) is provided to medical personnel and other officials
involved in the investigation and documentation of cases of torture, on a regular and
systematic basis;
(b)
Develop and implement a methodology to assess the effectiveness and
impact of all educational and training programmes on the reduction of cases of
torture and ill-treatment and regularly evaluate the training provided to its law
enforcement officials;
(c)
Strengthen its efforts to implement a gender-sensitive approach for the
training of those involved in the custody, interrogation or treatment of women
subjected to any form of arrest, detention or imprisonment; and
(d)
Develop training modules with the aim of sensitizing the law
enforcement officials against discrimination based on ethnicity.
Roma minority
(21) While noting the State party’s explanation that collection of data on ethnicity
contradicts the right to privacy, the Committee remains concerned that no other alternative
modalities have been developed by the State party in order to study the extent of ethnically
motivated crimes and to prevent and monitor occurrences of such acts, while ensuring
protection of individual privacy. It is further concerned about discrimination against the
non-national Roma minority (see concluding observations of the Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, E/C.12/SVN/CO/1) (arts. 2, 10 and 16).
In light of its general comment No. 2, the Committee recalls that the special protection
of certain minorities or marginalized individuals or groups especially at risk is part of
the State party’s obligations under the Convention. The Committee notes that the
purpose of gathering statistical data is to make possible for the State parties to
identify and obtain a better understanding of the ethnic groups in its territory and the
kind of discrimination they are or may be subject to, to find appropriate responses
and solutions to the forms of discrimination identified, and to measure progress made.
The Committee therefore recommends that the State party study and report the
extent of crimes that are ethnically motivated, investigate root causes whilst ensuring
the right to privacy and take all necessary measures to prevent such crimes in the
future. In this respect, the State party should strengthen its efforts to combat any
types of discrimination against Roma minorities.
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