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The State party should ensure that the appropriate steps are taken to provide the
victims of torture and ill-treatment with redress, including fair and adequate
compensation, and the fullest possible rehabilitation.
In its next periodic report, the State party is asked to provide the Committee with
statistics and full details of cases in which victims have obtained full redress, including
investigation and punishment of the perpetrators, compensation and rehabilitation.
Optional Protocol and national preventive mechanism
25.
The Committee takes note of the legal and constitutional proceedings which will
give rise to the establishment or designation of a national mechanism to prevent torture and
other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in conformity with the Optional
Protocol to the Convention.
The State party should accelerate the designation of the national preventive
mechanism and ensure it has the resources it needs to pursue its mandate
independently and effectively throughout the country.
26.
The Committee also recommends that the State party include in its next
periodic report information on compliance with obligations incumbent under the
Convention on Ecuadorian armed forces deployed abroad.
27.
The State party is urged to disseminate widely the report it has submitted to the
Committee, and the Committee’s concluding observations, through official websites,
the media and non-governmental organizations.
28.
The Committee requests the State party to provide, within one year,
information on its response to the Committee’s recommendations contained in
paragraphs 12, 14, 15, 18 and 22 of the present document.
29.
The Committee invites the State party to present its next periodic report in
accordance with its reporting guidelines and to observe the page limit of 40 pages for
the treaty-specific document. The Committee also invites the State party to submit a
core document in accordance with the requirements of the common core document
contained in the harmonized guidelines on reporting under the international human
rights treaties (HRI/GEN.2/Rev.6), approved by the inter-committee meeting of
human rights treaty bodies, and to observe the page limit of 80 pages for such core
documents. The treaty-specific document and the common core document together
constitute the reporting obligation of the State party under the Convention.
30.
The State party is invited to submit its seventh periodic report by 19 November
2014 at the latest.
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