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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.
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