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ensure that suitable action is taken against those responsible and remedies granted to
the victims.
Follow-up procedure
54.
The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 6 December 2018,
information on follow-up to the Committee’s recommendations on alleged secret and
incommunicado detention (para. 17 (b) and (c)), on allegations of torture and illtreatment in military detention facilities (para. 19), on impunity for acts of torture
and ill-treatment (para. 23) and on the lack of cooperation with the Subcommittee on
Prevention of Torture (para. 37 (a)). In that context, the State party is invited to
inform the Committee about its plans for implementing, within the coming reporting
period, some or all of the remaining recommendations in the concluding observations.
Other issues
55.
The Committee invites the State party to ratify the core United Nations human
rights treaties to which it is not yet party, namely:
(a)
The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from
Enforced Disappearance;
(b)
The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights;
(c)
The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights;
(d)
The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a
communications procedure.
56.
The State party is requested to disseminate widely the report submitted to the
Committee and the present concluding observations, in the official languages, through
official websites, the media and non-governmental organizations.
57.
The State party is invited to submit its next periodic report, which will be its
third, by 6 December 2021. For that purpose, the Committee invites the State party to
accept, by 6 December 2018, the simplified reporting procedure consisting in the
transmittal, by the Committee to the State party, of a list of issues prior to the
submission of the report. The State party’s replies to that list of issues will constitute
its third periodic report under article 19 of the Convention.
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