CEDAW/C/77/D/133/2018 Advance unedited version 5.1 On 13 August 2019, the author presented comments on the State party ’s observations. 5.2 The author refers to two reports, published in 2013 and 2014, by the Kyrgyz National Center on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and a report of a project of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Centre on the prevention of torture in Kyrgyzstan, which concluded that the living and sanitary conditions in the Jalalabad, Tash-Komur, Maili-Say, Nooken, Bazar-Korgon and Batken temporary isolation wards did not meet national standards. T he annual reports of the National Center for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 6 also stated that the conditions in the temporary isolation wards in the country did not meet national and international standards. 5.3 The author submits that only once was she searched by two women, who were not staff of the temporary isolation ward in Nooken. In all other temporary isolation wards the staff is composed only of men, so the author was subjected many times to personal searches conducted by the male staff. 5.4 On 5 June 2015, the author filed a complaint to the Office of the Prosecutor of Jalalabad with a request to conduct a verification of the living conditions in the temporary isolation ward. In August 2015, she received a response from the Internal Affairs Department of the Jalalabad region that the living conditions did not meet the standards since the building was very old; however, the necessary funding for renovation had not been allocated. Nevertheless, some initiatives by OCSE and the local non-governmental organizations were directed to the improvement of the living conditions in the detention facilities. 5.5 The author reiterates that she has exhausted all available domestic remedies; however, domestic legislation and practice does not allow for the possi bility of bringing these kinds of complaints to court. This results in the violation of her right to effective domestic remedy. 5.6 The author submitted a copy of a third-party intervention by the World Organization against Torture and asked the Committee to take that into account. She noted that the third-party intervention listed a number of human rights standards regarding women in detention, in particular the requirement that women detainees must be supervised by women staff, the right to privacy in the context of body searches and surveillance and the right to adequate health care. These standards are set out in the revised United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners adopted by the General Assembly in 2015 and supplemented by the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules), adopted by the Assembly in 2010. Issues and proceedings before the Committee Consideration of admissibility 6.1 In accordance with rule 64 of its rules of procedure, the Committee must decide whether the communication is admissible under the Optional Protocol. Pursuant to rule 66, the Committee may examine the admissibility of the communication separately from the merits. __________________ 6 6/10 The reports were submitted to the Committee.