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The State party should increase its efforts to ensure that urgent and efficient
protection measures are put in place to prevent, combat and punish perpetrators of
violence against women and children, including sexual abuse, domestic violence and
femicide, and conduct widespread awareness-raising campaigns and training on
violence against women and girls for officials (judges, lawyers, law enforcement
agents, and social workers) who are in direct contact with the victims, as well as for
the public at large.
22. The Committee is also concerned at reports of inspections of female private parts when
entering a place of detention, in particular at the fact that such inspections may be carried out by
unqualified persons, including by personnel without medical training (art. 16).
The Committee emphasizes that inspections of female private parts can constitute
cruel or degrading treatment and that the State party should take measures to ensure
that they are carried out only when necessary, by trained medical professionals and
in taking the greatest care to preserve the dignity of the woman being examined.
Compensation and rehabilitation
23. The Committee regrets the lack of a specific programme to implement the rights of victims
of torture and ill-treatment to receive adequate reparation and compensation. The Committee
also regrets the lack of available information regarding the number of victims of torture and
ill-treatment who may have received compensation and the amounts awarded in such cases, as
well as the lack of information about other forms of assistance, including medical or
psychosocial rehabilitation, provided to these victims (arts. 12 and 14).
The State party should:
(a) Strengthen its efforts in respect of reparation, compensation and
rehabilitation in order to provide victims of torture and other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment with fair and adequate reparation and
compensation, including the means for as full a rehabilitation as possible;
(b) Develop a specific programme of assistance in respect of victims of torture
and ill-treatment.
24. The Committee is concerned at the insufficient prosecution and sentencing of those
criminally responsible for crimes against humanity, including possible acts of torture, committed
under the authoritarian regime that governed until 1982. The Committee is also concerned at the
lack of information on reparation, rehabilitation and other measures provided to the victims
(arts. 12 and 14).
The Committee considers that the absence of prosecution and provision of adequate
reparation, including rehabilitation, to victims contribute to a failure of the State
party to meet its obligations under the Convention to prevent torture and