CAT/C/BEN/CO/2 page 8 The State party should adopt all appropriate measures to prevent, combat and punish violence against women, for instance by incorporating into the draft Criminal Code the offences of family violence, marital rape and trafficking in women and by promptly adopting the bill on the prevention, control and repression of violence against women in Benin. The State party should also set up a rehabilitation and support system for victims. Mob justice 25. The Committee is concerned at reports that the phenomenon of mob justice persists (art. 16). The State party should strengthen its efforts to eliminate the problem of mob justice. The Committee invites the State party to undertake a thorough review of the obstacles to the eradication of the phenomenon and to consider more effective approaches. Training on the prohibition of torture 26. While acknowledging the State party’s significant efforts in providing human rights training to State officials, the Committee regrets, however, the lack of information regarding specific training on the prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment (art. 10). The State party should strengthen human rights training programmes for law enforcement officials so as to incorporate the prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment. Such training should also be provided to medical staff. 27. The Committee reiterates the recommendation it made during the consideration of the report of Benin in 2001 that the State party should make the declarations provided for in articles 21 and 22 of the Convention. 28. The Committee encourages the State party to involve NGOs and academic experts in the review of national legislation, including the draft Criminal Code and the draft Code of Criminal Procedure, with a view to bringing them into line with the provisions of the Convention. The State party should take the necessary steps to adopt these draft Codes forthwith. 29. The State party, with the support of academic institutions, should establish effective mechanisms to collect data and develop criminal and criminology statistics and all statistics relevant to monitoring the national implementation of the Convention. The State party should thus provide in its next periodic report the following data, which will facilitate the Committee’s assessment of the implementation of obligations under the Convention: (a) Statistics on the reception capacity and population of each prison in Benin, including data disaggregated by gender and age group (adults/children), and the number of pretrial detainees; (b) Statistics on violence in detention centres and police and gendarmerie stations;

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