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Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Istanbul Protocol) should be
included in the training material;
(b)
Assess and evaluate, as far as practicable, the effectiveness of educational
and training programmes relating to the Convention and the Istanbul Protocol.
Conditions of detention
17.
While noting the State party’s commitment to improving conditions of detention,
through a European Union project, the Committee remains concerned at the conditions in
detention facilities, especially the remand prison in Podgorica, such as the overcrowding,
the inadequate access to health care and the lack of meaningful activities and rehabilitation
programmes. The Committee regrets the lack of information on inter-prisoner violence and
sexual violence in prisons. (arts. 11 and 16)
The State party should strengthen its efforts to improve prison conditions in
conformity with the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
(Economic and Social Council resolutions 663 C (XXIV) and 2076 (LXII)), by
reducing the high rate of overcrowding, in particular through the wider use of
alternatives to imprisonment, in the light of the United Nations Standard Minimum
Rules for Non-custodial Measures (Tokyo Rules), by providing access to full health
care services for prisoners. The State party should implement effectively alternative
sanctions and rehabilitation programmes. The Committee also recommends that the
State party take appropriate measures to prevent sexual violence in prisons, including
inter-prisoner violence.
Attacks against journalists
18.
The Committee is concerned at a number of cases of intimidation of or violence
against journalists, killings of journalists and attacks against media property, and at the lack
of investigation of such cases. In addition to the cases of Olivera Lakić and Mladen
Stojović, the Committee takes note of concerns raised by the Special Rapporteur on the
promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression at the end of his
visit to Montenegro in 2013 in relation to unresolved cases of attacks on and killings of
journalists, including the murder of Duško Jovanović in 2004. (arts. 2 and 12)
The State party should inform the Committee of the outcomes of the work carried out
by the commission established in December 2013 to investigate cases of threats and
violations against journalists, murders of journalists and attacks on media property.
Violence against women
19.
While noting the State party’s efforts to combat gender-based violence, including
the adoption of the Law on Domestic Violence Protection in 2010, and of the Strategy for
Combating Domestic Violence for the period 2011–2015, the Committee expresses its
concern at (art. 16):
(a)
The reported lack of implementation of existing legislation and policy;
(b)
The prevalence of violence against women and, in particular, of domestic
violence, as well as the low rate of reporting on such violence;
(c)
The lack of effective investigation of reports of violence and the lack of
prosecutions, the mild sentences given to perpetrators and the inadequate protection of
victims, with protection orders being used in only a limited manner.
Recalling the recommendations made in 2011 by the Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women (CEDAW/C/MNE/CO/1, para. 19), the State party
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