CAT/C/QAT/CO/2 Training 23. While noting with appreciation that the State party organized several training session for law enforcement officials on human rights, the Committee is concerned at the lack of specific training of law enforcement officials, judges, prosecutors and medical personnel dealing with detained persons on the provisions of the Convention and how to detect and document physical and psychological sequelae of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Furthermore, the Committee regrets relatively low number of training participants and insufficient assessment of the impact of the trainings conducted and their effectiveness in reducing incidents of torture and ill-treatment (art. 10). The State party should further develop and strengthen educational programmes and training to ensure that all officials dealing with persons deprived of liberty are fully aware of the provisions of the Convention. Furthermore, all relevant personnel, including medical personnel, should receive specific training on how to identify signs of torture and ill-treatment. To this effect, the Manual on Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Istanbul Protocol), should be included in the training material. In addition, the State party should develop and implement a methodology to assess the effectiveness and impact of such training programmes on the reduction of cases of torture and ill-treatment. Redress, including compensation and rehabilitation 24. The Committee is concerned at the lack of comprehensive information and statistical data on reparation and compensation, including rehabilitation, for victims of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the State party. The Committee notes with concern the extremely low number of cases of compensation and rehabilitation for victims, in particular, domestic workers. For the period from 2007 to 2012, the State provided compensation to eight domestic workers and the Qatar Foundation for Combating Human Trafficking provided rehabilitation for 12 victims (art. 14). The State party should strengthen its efforts to provide victims of torture and other ill-treatment with fair and adequate reparation and compensation, including rehabilitation. The State party should include migrant workers and persons subjected to trafficking in redress programmes and ensure that they have access to effective remedies for torture and ill-treatment, including compensation and rehabilitation. The Committee draws the attention of the State party to the recently adopted general comment No. 3 (2012) on implementation of article 14 of the Convention, which explains the content and scope of the obligations of States parties to provide full redress to victims of torture. Universal jurisdiction 25. While noting that the Qatari Penal Code provides for universal jurisdiction in cases of torture, the Committee is concerned at the lack of information provided on how the State party has exercised its jurisdiction over cases of torture referred to in articles 4 and 5 of the Convention (art. 5). The State party should ensure that acts of torture are subject to universal jurisdiction in its domestic law in accordance with article 5 of the Convention. 26. The Committee invites the State party to ratify the core United Nations human rights treaties to which it is not yet a party, in particular, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its Optional Protocols, the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the International Convention for 9

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