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The Committee recommends that the State party amend its legislation, including the
Family Act and the new Civil Code, with a view to introducing an explicit prohibition
against corporal punishment in all settings. The State party should carry out
awareness-raising campaigns among the general public regarding the unacceptability
of and the harm done by corporal punishment.
Data collection
23.
The Committee regrets the absence of comprehensive and disaggregated data on
complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions of cases of torture and ill treatment
by law enforcement, security, and prison personnel, including in relation to involuntary
sterilization, surgical castration, involuntary treatment and placement in social institutions,
including the use of restraints, and violent attacks against ethnic minorities, in particular
Roma, trafficking and domestic and sexual violence.
The State party should compile statistical data relevant to the monitoring of the
implementation of the Convention at the national level, in such areas as data on
complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions of cases of torture and illtreatment, in relation to involuntary sterilization, surgical castration, involuntary
treatment and placement in social institutions, the use of restraints, and violent
attacks against ethnic minorities, in particular Roma, trafficking and domestic and
sexual violence, as well as on means of redress, including compensation and
rehabilitation, provided to the victims.
24.
The Committee invites the State party to ratify the core United Nations human rights
treaties to which it is not yet a party, namely the International Convention on the Protection
of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and members of Their Families, the Convention for
the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Optional Protocol to the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Optional Protocol
to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography.
25.
The State party is requested to disseminate widely the report submitted to the
Committee and the Committee’s concluding observations, in appropriate languages,
through official websites, the media and non-governmental organizations.
26.
The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 1 June 2013, follow-up
information in response to the Committee’s recommendations relating to (a) ensuring or
strengthening legal safeguards for persons detained, (b) conducting prompt, impartial and
effective investigations, and (c) prosecuting suspects and sanctioning perpetrators of torture
and ill-treatment, as contained in paragraphs 11, 14 and 21 of the present document.
27.
The State party is invited to submit its next report, which will be the sixth periodic
report, by 1 June 2016. For that purpose, the Committee will, in due course, submit to the
State party a list of issues prior to reporting, considering that the State party has accepted to
report to the Committee under the optional reporting procedure.
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