A/69/44 The State party should: (a) Close, as a matter of urgency, the secret detention facilities and ensure that the persons detained there enjoy all legal guarantees, particularly as regards the right to be brought before a judge within a maximum of 48 hours after being arrested or detained, the right to consult a lawyer of their choice and the right to be examined by a doctor, preferably of their choice; (b) Investigate and ensure that no person is detained in secret or unofficial detention facilities, prevent any type of unlawful detention on its territory and investigate any allegations relating to such incidents; (c) Ensure that detention takes place in an official detention facility and that the identity of the detainee and the place of detention are recorded in a central register that may be consulted by the persons concerned. Violence against women (16) The Committee is extremely concerned at reports of widespread violence affecting more than 90 per cent of women and girls. It deplores that prompt and effective investigations are conducted only rarely because of, inter alia, the difficulties that victims of sexual violence or domestic violence have in gaining access to justice and the lack of shelters where they can take refuge. The Committee is extremely concerned that articles 321 and 322 of the Criminal Code classify rape and sexual abuse, which are extremely widespread, as “immoral acts” and “indecent assault”, respectively, and not as crimes against the person, particularly given the impunity that prevails in this area, whether they are committed by law enforcement officers or by private individuals (arts. 2, 12, 13 and 16). The State party should: (a) Step up its efforts and urgently enforce effective mechanisms to prevent and punish all forms of violence against women and girls, including by ensuring that all acts of violence are promptly, effectively and impartially investigated and prosecuted, that perpetrators, including law enforcement officers, are brought to justice and that victims are provided with redress. The State party should establish not only an effective complaints mechanism for women and girls but also a monitoring mechanism to fulfil its positive duty to prevent all forms of violence against them; (b) Ensure that the Legislative Reform Commission categorizes rape and sexual abuse, in the legislative texts under revision, as crimes against the person and not as “immoral acts and indecent assault”, and includes in the Criminal Code the various forms of sexual violence, including marital rape and domestic violence; (c) Launch prevention programmes for combating the stigmatization of women victims of violence, create empowerment programmes for women, set up shelters for victims, and conduct awareness-raising campaigns, since rape is still a major taboo in the country and a cause of exclusion from both the family and society. Female genital mutilation (17) Despite the adoption of Act No. L010/AN/2000 of 10 July 2000 and articles 405 et seq. of the Children’s Code, the Committee notes with great concern the statement of the Guinean delegation that there has been no prosecution or conviction under that law to date. The Committee therefore doubly deplores the fact that, in January 2013, 96 per cent of girls and women were still subject to female genital mutilation, as indicated by the Guinean delegation during the consideration of the State party’s second periodic report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child at its sixty-second session, in 2013 (arts. 2, 12, 13, 14 and 16). 106 GE.14-12596