A/69/44 mutilation, trafficking in persons, enforced disappearances, requests for asylum and cases of refoulement (arts. 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 16). The State party should collect and submit statistical data, disaggregated by age and sex of the victim, that would be useful in monitoring implementation of the Convention at the national level, particularly data on complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions related to acts of torture and ill-treatment attributed to law enforcement personnel. Statistical data should also be collected and submitted on physical and sexual violence against girls and women, domestic violence, female genital mutilation and enforced disappearances. (28) The Committee encourages the State party to consider making the declaration under article 22 of the Convention, thereby recognizing the competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications from individuals. (29) The Committee invites the State party to consider ratifying the core United Nations human rights instruments to which it is not yet a party, namely: the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, which it signed on 16 September 2005, and the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. (30) In light of its tardy submission of the initial report, and in order to ensure proper implementation of the Committee’s recommendations, the State party is requested to disseminate the report widely, along with the present concluding observations, in the appropriate languages, through official websites, the media and non-governmental organizations. The State party should also work vigorously with the civil society to launch university programmes providing awareness and training to law enforcement agents with respect to the Committee’s recommendations. (31) The Committee requests the State party to submit, by 23 May 2015, information on the follow-up given to the following recommendations: (a) introduce or strengthen legal safeguards for persons held in custody; (b) conduct prompt, effective and impartial investigations; and (c) prosecute suspects and impose penalties on the perpetrators of torture or ill-treatment (see paragraphs 9, 10, 12 and 13 above). The Committee further requests additional information on the violence against girls and women mentioned in paragraphs 16 and 17, along with any pertinent statistical data. (32) The Committee invites the State party to submit its next periodic report, which will be its second, by 23 May 2018. The Committee also invites the State party to agree, by 23 May 2015, to submit that report under the optional procedure whereby the Committee sends the State party a list of issues prior to submission of its periodic report. The replies of the State party to this list of issues will constitute its second periodic report under article 19 of the Convention. 65. Holy See (1) The Committee against Torture considered the initial report of the Holy See (CAT/C/VAT/1) at its 1220th and 1223rd meetings, held on 5 and 6 May 2014 (CAT/C/SR.1220 and CAT/C/SR.1223), and adopted the following concluding observations at its 1245th, 1246th and 1247th meetings (CAT/C/SR.1245, CAT/C/SR.1246 and CAT/C/SR.1247) held on 21 and 22 May 2014. A. Introduction (2) The Committee welcomes the initial report of the Holy See (CAT/C/VAT/1), which follows the Committee’s Guidelines on the form and content of initial reports (CAT/C/4/Rev.3) required under article 19 on the measures they have taken to give effect to their undertakings under the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or GE.14-12596 111