CAT/C/ALB/CO/2 The Committee urges the State party to take immediate legal and other measures to ensure that victims of torture and ill-treatment obtain redress and have an enforceable right to fair and adequate compensation, including the means for as full rehabilitation as possible, in particular the former political prisoners and persecuted persons, and to collect data and share information in the next periodic report on instances and types of compensation and rehabilitation granted. Data collection 28. The Committee appreciates the State party’s compilation of statistics on crimes, including ill-treatment by the police and trafficking in human beings. It notes the data on complaints of ill-treatment by law enforcement officers, disaggregated by suspected crime. However, the Committee regrets the absence of comprehensive and disaggregated data on complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions of cases of torture and illtreatment by law enforcement, security, military and prison personnel, as well as on honour crimes, domestic and sexual violence, enforced disappearances, and on means of redress, including compensation and rehabilitation provided to the victims (arts. 2, 12, 13 and 16). The Committee recommends that the State party compile statistical data relevant to the monitoring of the implementation of the Convention at the national level, including data on complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions of cases of torture and ill-treatment by law enforcement, security, military and prison personnel, as well as on honour crimes, domestic and sexual violence, enforced disappearances, and on means of redress, including compensation and rehabilitation provided to the victims. 29. The Committee recommends that the State party consider making the declarations envisaged under articles 21 and 22 of the Convention, in order to recognize the competence of the Committee to receive and consider inter-State and individual communications, as indicated by the delegation. 30. 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 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 31. 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. 32. The State party is invited to submit its common core document, in accordance with the requirements of the common core document contained in the harmonized guidelines on reporting under the international human rights treaties (HRI/GEN.2/Rev.6). 33. The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 1 June 2013, follow-up information in response to the Committee’s recommendations related to (a) ensuring or strengthening legal safeguards for persons detained, and (b) conducting prompt, impartial and effective investigations, and prosecuting suspects and sanctioning perpetrators of torture or ill-treatment, as contained in paragraphs 13 and 21 of the present document. In addition, the Committee requests follow-up information on the provision of fair and adequate compensation to the victims as well as data collection, as contained in paragraphs 27 and 28 of the present document. 10

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