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article 3 of the Convention; and to ensure adequate judicial mechanisms for the
review of decisions, sufficient legal defence for persons subject to extradition, and
effective post-return monitoring arrangements.
Training
(24) While noting various human rights training programmes for public officials and
judges, the Committee regrets: (a) the insufficient level of practical training with regard to
the provisions of the Convention for law enforcement officers and the judiciary; (b) the lack
of specific training to detect signs of torture and ill-treatment for medical personnel dealing
with detainees; and (c) the lack of information on the impact of existing training
programmes on the prevention of the offences of torture or ill-treatment (art. 10).
The State party should:
(a)
Reinforce training programmes on the absolute prohibition of torture
and the State party’s obligations under the Convention, taking a gender-sensitive
approach, for all personnel involved in custody, detention, interrogation and
treatment of detainees as well as the judiciary; and
(b)
Provide all relevant personnel, especially medical personnel, with
training on how to identify signs of torture and ill-treatment and how to use the
Istanbul Protocol.
Lack of data
(25) The Committee regrets the lack of comprehensive or disaggregated data on
compliance with the State party’s obligations under the Convention (arts. 2, 12, 13 and 19).
The State party should compile and provide to the Committee statistical data relevant
to the monitoring of the implementation of the Convention at the national level,
including the type of bodies engaged in such monitoring, disaggregated, inter alia, by
sex, ethnicity, age, crime and geographical location, including information on
complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions of cases of torture and illtreatment, deaths in custody, trafficking, domestic and sexual violence, and the
outcomes of all such complaints and cases, including compensation and rehabilitation
provided to victims.
(26) The Committee recommends that the State party consider making the declarations
under articles 21 and 22 of the Convention.
(27) The Committee invites the State party to ratify United Nations human rights treaties
to which it is not yet a party, particularly the International Convention for the Protection of
All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities.
(28) 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.
(29) The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 23 November 2014, followup information in response to the Committee’s recommendations related to (a) ensuring the
respect of fundamental legal safeguards; (b) conducting prompt, impartial and effective
investigations; and (c) prohibiting the use of evidence obtained through torture, as
contained in paragraphs 7, 8, 10 and 14 of the present document.
(30) The State party is invited to submit its next report, which will be the third periodic
report, by 23 November 2017. For that purpose, the Committee will, in due course, submit
to the State party a list of issues prior to reporting, considering that the State party has
accepted to report to the Committee under the optional reporting procedure.
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