The Reporting Procedure 4 • Protection of the rights of children (arts. 7 and 24) • Discrimination and incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence (arts. 20 and 26) • Equality and non-discrimination, right to participate in public life and the protection of rights of persons belonging to ethnic minorities (arts. 2, 25, 26 and 27) Focused reports based on replies to lists of issues prior to reporting (LOIPR): implementation of the new optional reporting procedure (LOIPR procedure), CCPR/C/99/4, available at OHCHR website: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?key=92g0+9FnI5fX/ ePqHxWObPpm//kusKEXT+B4cp/uCKqWAFsFrDexWgk2iQgS46+H&Lang=en TABLE 8 THE OUTLINE OF A LIST OF ISSUES PRIOR TO REPORTING (CAT) Questions by article or a cluster of articles • Articles 1 and 4 – definition of torture, criminalization of acts of torture • Article 2 – obligation to adopt measures to prevent acts of torture • Article 3 – non-refoulement • Articles 5, 7 and 8 – jurisdiction over the acts of torture, aut dedere aut judicare • Article 10 – education and training • Article 11 – review of rules in detention to prevent torture • Articles 12 and 13 – investigation of acts of torture • Article 14 – right to a redress • Article 15 – non-admission of confession/testimony made under torture • Article 16 – prohibition of cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment Others General information on the national human rights situation, including new measures and developments relating to implementation of the Convention • Please provide detailed information on the relevant new developments on the legal and institutional framework within which human rights are promoted and protected at national level that have occurred since the previous report, including any relevant jurisprudential decisions. • Please provide detailed relevant information on the new political, administrative or other measures taken to promote and protect human rights at national level since the previous periodic report, including on any national human rights plans or programmes, and the resources allocated thereto, their means, objectives and results. • Please provide any other information on new measures and developments undertaken to implement the Convention and the Committee’s recommendations since consideration of the previous periodic report in 2010, including the necessary statistical data, as well as on any events that have occurred in the State party and are relevant under the Convention. CAT optional reporting procedure, more information available at OHCHR website: http://www.ohchr.org/ EN/HRBodies/CAT/Pages/ReportingProcedures.aspx The Benefits of the Simplified Reporting Procedure The SRP presents advantages for both State parties and Treaty Bodies. For State parties the reporting workload is decreased without compromising the quality of the review as they are no longer required to submit both a report and written replies to a List of Issues. More importantly, through responding to specific requests for information, State parties’ reports are easier to prepare and more focused. Replying to questions also facilitates the distribution of tasks at national level with respect to the preparation of the State party report. The Simplified Reporting Procedure would probably result in more focused reports that will in turn have an impact on the constructive dialogue and, subsequently, 61