CAT/C/MDG/CO/1 Data collection 18. The Committee regrets the absence of complete and detailed data on complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions in cases of torture or ill-treatment inflicted by law enforcement officers, security personnel, members of the armed forces or prison staff and the lack of such information on extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, human trafficking, domestic violence, conditions of detention and redress (arts. 12, 13, 14 and 16). The State party should gather statistics that are useful for monitoring the implementation of the Convention at the national level, including data on complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions in cases of torture, ill-treatment and other types of human rights violations as mentioned above, and on the types of redress, compensation and rehabilitation offered to victims. The Committee invites the State party to include such data in its next periodic report. The information may be collected as part of the joint project being run with United Nations specialized agencies to set up a mechanism to monitor and assess the fulfilment of the State party’s human rights commitments. Refugees 19. The Committee notes that article 19 of the national law against torture prohibits extradition to a State where a person runs the risk of being tortured but says nothing about deportation or refoulement cases. The Committee also notes the lack of information on the situation of refugees in the country and the absence of a law on asylum (art. 3). The State party should amend article 19 of the law against torture of 25 June 2008 so that it also covers cases of deportation and refoulement, in accordance with article 3 of the Convention. The Committee encourages the State party to accede to the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and the Organization of African Unity Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa. It invites the State party to include information on the situation of refugees in Madagascar in its next periodic report. Cooperation with human rights mechanisms 20. The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its cooperation with United Nations human rights mechanisms, in particular by authorizing visits inter alia by the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. 21. Noting the commitment shown by the State party in the course of its universal periodic review and its dialogue with the Committee, the Committee recommends that the State party ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. 22. The Committee also recommends that the State party make the declarations provided for in articles 21 and 22 of the Convention, thereby recognizing the competence of the Committee to receive and consider individual complaints of violations of the Convention. 23. The Committee invites the State party to ratify the main human rights instruments of the United Nations to which it is not yet a party, including the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. GE.11-47941 7