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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.
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