A/68/44
Data collection
(20) The Committee regrets the absence of comprehensive, disaggregated data on
complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions related to acts of torture and illtreatment attributed to security service agents, including gendarmes, police officers,
prefectural guards and prison guards. Statistical data are also lacking with regard to
trafficking in persons, violence against women, including domestic and sexual violence and
female genital mutilation, and violence against children (arts. 2, 11–14 and 16).
The State party should collect statistical data, disaggregated by age and sex of the
victim, that would be useful in monitoring the implementation of the Convention at
the national level, particularly data on complaints, investigations, prosecutions and
convictions related to acts of torture and ill-treatment attributed to security service
agents, including gendarmes, police officers and prefectural guards and prison
guards, and on deaths in detention. Statistical data should also be provided on
trafficking in persons, violence against women, including domestic and sexual violence
and female genital mutilation, and violence against children, as well as on the means
of redress, particularly compensation and rehabilitation, from which victims have
benefited.
(21) The Committee encourages the State party to consider making the declaration under
article 22 of the Convention, recognizing the competence of the Committee to receive and
consider communications from individuals.
(22) The Committee invites the State party to consider ratifying the core United Nations
human rights instruments to which it is not yet a party, namely: the Second Optional
Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition
of the death penalty; the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights; the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women; the International Convention on the
Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families; and the
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
(23) The State party is requested to widely disseminate the report submitted to the
Committee as well as the present concluding observations, in appropriate languages,
through official websites, the media and non-governmental organizations.
(24) The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 23 November 2013,
information on follow-up to the following recommendations: (a) ensure the entry into force
of the new Criminal Code and the new Code of Criminal Procedure as a matter of urgency;
(b) urgently improve conditions of detention; (c) strengthen or ensure respect for the legal
safeguards to which detainees are entitled; and (d) prosecute and punish perpetrators of acts
of torture and ill-treatment, as contained in paragraphs 8, 10 (a), (b) and (c), 11 (a), (b) and
(e), and 13 (d), (e) and (f) of this document.
(25) The Committee invites the State party to present its next periodic report, which will
be its third, by 23 November 2016. The Committee also invites the State party to agree,
before 23 November 2013, to submit that report under the optional procedure whereby the
Committee sends the State party a list of issues prior to submission of its periodic report.
The replies of the State party to the list of issues would constitute its third periodic report
under article 19 of the Convention.
68.
Plurinational State of Bolivia
(1)
The Committee against Torture considered the second periodic report of the
Plurinational State of Bolivia (CAT/C/BOL/2) at its 1148th and 1151st meetings
(CAT/C/SR.1148 and 1151), held on 16 and 17 May 2013, and approved the following
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