(c) Respect the absolute nature of article 3 in all circumstances and fully incorporate it into domestic law; (d) Consider steps to amend Decree No. 56 of 2002 to ensure that there is no impunity for officials who have perpetrated or acquiesced in torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment; (e) Ensure that its legal system provides victims of past acts of torture with redress and an enforceable right to fair and adequate compensation; (f) Ensure that any measure taken to combat terrorism, including the draft law, is in accordance with Security Council resolutions which require, inter alia, that antiterrorism measures be carried out with full respect for the applicable rules of, inter alia, international human rights law, including the Convention; (g) Establish an independent body with a mandate to visit and/or supervise places of detention without prior notice, and allow impartial and NGOs to make visits to prisons and places where the authorities keep detainees; (h) Fully ensure the independence of the judiciary and include female judicial officials in its judicial system; (i) Consider adopting a Family Code, including measures to prevent and punish violence against women, especially domestic violence, including fair standards of proof; (j) Ensure that all detained persons have immediate access to a doctor and a lawyer, as well as contact with their families, and that detainees held by the Criminal Investigation Department are given prompt access to a judge; (k) Take effective measures to prevent and redress the serious problems commonly faced by foreign workers, particularly female domestic workers; (l) Consider the establishment of a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles; (m) Remove inappropriate restrictions on the work of NGOs, especially those dealing with issues related to the Convention; (n) Ensure that law enforcement, civil, military and medical personnel, public officials and other persons who may be involved in the custody, interrogation or treatment of any individual deprived of his/her liberty are trained to recognize the physical consequences of torture and respect the absolute prohibition of torture; (o) Provide information to the Committee about the proposed committee for the prevention of vice and promotion of virtue, including whether it exercises a precise jurisdiction in full conformity with the requirements of the Convention and is subject to review by ordinary judicial authority. 47

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