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The State party should 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,
trafficking and domestic and sexual violence, as well as of means of redress, including
compensation and rehabilitation provided to the victims.
23.
The Committee recommends that the State party consider ratifying the Optional
Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment and the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights as soon as possible. It also invites the State party to consider
ratifying the other core United Nations human rights treaties to which it is not yet party,
namely the the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional
Protocol, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women, and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights.
24.
The Committee also recommends that the State party consider making the
declarations under articles 21 and 22 of the Convention, in order to recognize the
competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications.
25.
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.
26.
The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 23 November 2013, followup information in response to the Committee’s recommendations relating to: (a) conducting
prompt, impartial and effective investigations; (b) ensuring or strengthening legal
safeguards for persons detained; and (c) prosecuting suspects and sanctioning perpetrators
of torture or ill-treatment, as contained in paragraphs 8(a) and (b), 9(a), 11(c), and 14(a),
(b), (c), and (d) of the present document.
27.
The State party is invited to submit its next report, which will be the third periodic
report, by 23 November 2016. To that purpose, the Committee invites the State party to
accept, by 23 November 2013, to report under its optional reporting procedure, consisting
in the transmittal, by the Committee to the State party, of a list of issues prior to the
submission of the periodic report. The State party’s response to this list of issues will
constitute, under article 19 of the Convention, its next periodic report.
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