CAT/C/BIH/CO/6 cuts, understaffing and lack of necessary equipment, and that a fund for families of missing persons has not been established due to political disagreement. The Committee regrets the lack of records on assistance provided to families of missing persons (arts. 1, 4, 14 and 16). 27. The Committee urges the State party to complete the establishment of a central register of missing persons and establish a fund for families of missing persons without delay, in accordance with the Law on Missing Persons. The State party should also provide the Missing Persons Institute with sufficient financial and human resources necessary to discharge its functions without any restraint, and ensure that the Institute has adequate technology and equipment to detect and exhume graves. The State party should also compile data on the provision of assistance to families of missing persons and accurately assess their needs, including for rehabilitative services. Refugees and non-refoulement 28. The Committee is concerned at the extremely low rate of successful asylum applications in the State party and notes with concern that no refugee status was granted in 2015 and 2016. While the domestic legislation on asylum provides for access by refugees and asylum seekers to their rights, the Committee is concerned that, in practice, inadequate legal aid and low quality interpretation service prevent asylum seekers from accessing the asylum procedure and being identified at an early stage. The Committee notes with concern that, in 2016, 42 per cent of asylum seekers applied for asylum only after they had been placed in an immigration detention facility. The Committee is also concerned at information received that the State party detains asylum seekers whose asylum applications are pending and that neither the appeal proceedings before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina nor the Constitutional Court have automatic suspensive effect on a deportation order (arts. 2–3 and 16). 29. The State party should ensure full protection from refoulement by establishing the necessary legal and administrative safeguards and remedies in forced return procedures and thereby guarantee at all times that no person in need of international protection will be returned to a country where he or she is in danger of being subjected to acts of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, conditions or punishment. To that end, the State party should: (a) Facilitate access to a prompt and fair individualized refugee determination procedure, including by ensuring a timely identification of asylum seekers and by providing training to border police and immigration officials on promptly providing information on the right to seek asylum; (b) Guarantee, in law and in practice, access to independent, qualified and free legal assistance and interpretation services for asylum seekers throughout the asylum procedure; (c) Enhance the capacity of immigration officials to thoroughly assess country-of-origin information and apply reasonable standards of proof of persecution faced by asylum applicants; (d) Refrain from detaining refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants for prolonged periods and use detention only as a measure of last resort and for as short a period as possible, including by promoting alternatives to detention. Juvenile justice 30. While commending the adoption by Republika Srpska of the 2011 Law on the Protection and Treatment of Children and Juveniles in Contact with the Law and welcoming the opening of the Juvenile Educational and Correctional Facility of Orasje, the Committee remains concerned at reports that juveniles seldom benefit from rehabilitation services and alternative measures to detention, that they are occasionally detained together with adults, and that they may be subject to pretrial detention of extended duration (art. 11). 31. The State party should bring its juvenile justice system fully into line with international standards, including the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (the Beijing Rules), including by: 7

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