A/HRC/10/44/Add.1 page 6 (g) The Special Rapporteur notes with particular concern that, in many cases, victims of torture fall into a vicious circle of re-victimization. Contrary to what is required by international standards, they experience a total lack of justice, which, combined with the physical and psychological consequences of ill-treatment and the lack of any rehabilitation or compensation mechanism, causes ongoing suffering that can amount to inhuman treatment. V. RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY 18. In order for Equatorial Guinea to comply with its obligations under both international human rights law and its Constitution, it must undertake a comprehensive reform of its institutions and judicial system, involving the establishment of law enforcement bodies based on the rule of law, an independent judiciary and effective mechanisms for monitoring and ensuring transparency. 19. In addition to the foregoing, a number of steps should be taken in the immediate future to address the most urgent human rights concerns: (a) Implement the recommendations contained in the report on the 2007 visit of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) to Equatorial Guinea (A/HRC/7/4/Add.3, para. 100), notably that the Government should: put an immediate end to the practice of secret detentions; revise the national criminal law framework, including with regard to making guarantees of habeas corpus effective; reform the judiciary with a view to complying with the international instruments to which Equatorial Guinea is a State party; and allow civil society organizations to function independently; (b) Strictly separate women and minors from adult men in all places of detention; (c) Introduce proper registers in police detention facilities (to some extent the gendarmerie registers can serve as an example) and maintain proper registers in prisons; issue a transparent set of rules allowing for regular family visits in all places of detention; make minimal use of solitary confinement (see also A/63/175, paras. 77-85 and annex) and refrain from using leg irons; (d) Improve conditions in police and gendarmerie detention facilities; in particular by providing food and drinking water and ensuring that detainees have access to medical care as well as toilets and sanitary facilities; (e) With regard to foreigners, the Special Rapporteur underscores the recommendation of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to avoid their detention where possible, and to guarantee them all the rights recognized to persons deprived of liberty by international instruments, including the right to communicate with their respective consulates.