CAT/C/QAT/CO/2 The State party should strengthen its efforts to provide legal protection to migrant workers, including female domestic workers, in its territory against torture, illtreatment and abuse and guarantee access to justice. In that regard, the State party should: (a) Adopt, as a matter of urgency, labour legislation covering domestic work and providing legal protection to migrant domestic workers against exploitation, illtreatment and abuse; (b) Consider abolishing the sponsorship system for all migrant workers, as recommended by the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children (A/HRC/4/23/Add.2, para. 95); and (c) Provide data of complaints of ill-treatment of migrant workers filed with the authorities, the action taken to solve cases, remedies provided to victims and the punishment imposed against employers responsible. Violence against women, including domestic violence 19. The Committee notes with encouragement various measures begun by the State party, including the Qatar Foundation for the Protection of Women and Children, such as the launch of a hotline and the provision of shelters and legal assistance to some victims. However, the Committee expresses concern over the persistence of violence against women, including domestic violence and sexual violence against domestic workers and, as indicated in paragraph 7 of the present concluding observations, the lack of statistical information on the overall complaints of domestic violence reported and investigations, convictions and punishments meted out (arts. 2, 12, 14 and 16). The State party should strengthen its efforts to prevent violence against women, including domestic and sexual violence, inter alia, by: (a) Establishing effective measures to guarantee victims’ right to complain in relation to violations of the Convention and their inalienable rights promptly and without torture or ill-treatment or intimidation as a consequence of her or his complaint. The State party should work with appropriate non-governmental or international bodies, including foreign embassies, to that end and inform the Committee of its efforts to assess the accessibility and effectiveness of such system; (b) Ensuring accountability of all perpetrators of such acts by undertaking prompt, impartial and effective investigations into complaints, prosecuting perpetrators of such violence and punishing them with appropriate penalties; and (c) Ensuring that all victims of violence against women are provided with adequate redress and reparation, including compensation and the means for as full rehabilitation as possible. Trafficking in persons 20. While welcoming various measures undertaken by the State party, in particular, the Qatar Foundation for Combating Human Trafficking, such as the adoption of the Arab Initiative against Human Trafficking, the Committee is concerned that Qatar continues to be a destination country for men and women subjected to forced labour and forced prostitution. The Committee also regrets the lack of information on the number of complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions of perpetrators of trafficking. The Committee, while noting the promulgation of the Law No. 15 of 2011 on trafficking, is concerned that, as raised by the Qatar NHRC in its 2011 annual report, article 5 of the aforementioned law allows for the return of victims to their countries without ensuring an assessment of risk upon return (arts. 2, 3, 4 and 16). 7