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42.
The State party should:
(a)
Expedite the adoption by the Senate of the Anti-Corporal Punishment
Bill (No. 2182) to prohibit the corporal punishment of children in all settings,
including in the home;
(b)
Immediately withdraw Bill No. 922 from Congress, with a view to
maintaining the age of criminal responsibility as it currently stands.
Follow-up procedure
43.
The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 13 May 2017,
information on follow-up to the Committee’s recommendations on pretrial detention
and overcrowding, the measures taken with regard to torture and ill-treatment and
steps taken to close all secret places of detention (see paras. 14, 16 and 22 above). In
that context, the State party is invited to inform the Committee about its plans for
implementing, within the coming reporting period, some or all of the remaining
recommendations in the concluding observations.
Other issues
44.
The Committee reiterates its recommendation that the State party consider
making the declarations under articles 21 and 22 of the Convention recognizing the
competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications from
individuals subject to its jurisdiction.
45.
The Committee invites the State party to consider ratifying the core United
Nations human rights treaties to which it is not yet party.
46.
The State party is requested to disseminate widely the report submitted to the
Committee and the present concluding observations, in appropriate languages,
through official websites, the media and non-governmental organizations.
47.
The State party is invited to submit its fourth periodic report by 13 May 2020.
For that purpose, and in view of the fact that the State party has agreed to report to
the Committee under the simplified reporting procedure, the Committee will, in due
course, transmit to the State party a list of issues prior to reporting. The State party’s
replies to that list of issues will constitute its fourth periodic report under article 19 of
the Convention. The State party is also invited to submit its common core document in
accordance with the requirements contained in the harmonized guidelines on
reporting under the international human rights treaties (HRI/GEN.2/Rev.6).
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