A/68/44 The Committee recommends that the Child Protection Act be amended to prohibit explicitly corporal punishment of children in all settings, including at home and in alternative care settings, as an offence under the law. Stateless persons (22) While welcoming the significant reduction of statelessness in the State party from 32 per cent in the 1990s, and noting the information provided by the representatives of the State party, the Committee is concerned that some 7 per cent of the population continues to have “undetermined citizenship” and by the low level of registration as citizens of children born in Estonia to non-citizen parents (art. 2). The State party should: (a) Adopt legal and practical measures to simplify and facilitate the naturalization and integration of stateless persons and non-citizens, including by revisiting the requirements for the granting of citizenship; (b) Consider offering language courses free of charge to all non-citizens who wish to apply for Estonian citizenship; (c) Continue and enhance the efforts by the Citizenship and Migration Board to raise the awareness of parents whose children are eligible for naturalization through the simplified procedure of the requirements for citizenship, and consider granting automatic citizenship at birth, without previous registration by parents, to the children of non-citizen parents who do not acquire any other nationality; (d) Ensure the effective implementation of the Integration Strategy and of the State Integration Programme for 2008–2013, and extend the Programme beyond 2013; (e) Despite the information provided by the State party regarding its decision not to ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the reduction of statelessness, reconsider such ratification as a matter of priority. Data collection (23) While appreciating the data provided on complaints and convictions on torture and ill-treatment as well as on trafficking and other items, the Committee regrets the information from the State party that statistical data is not collected in ways that would permit a fuller analysis of who is complaining, where, for what reason, by whom, and with what result. Accordingly, the Committee regrets that this data is not disaggregated by crime or other characteristics, regarding complaints, investigations and prosecutions of cases of torture and ill-treatment by law enforcement, military, security and prison personnel, as well as on inter-prisoner violence, trafficking, violence against women, children and other vulnerable groups, including domestic and sexual violence, as well as means of redress provided to the victims (arts. 1, 2, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 16). The State party should establish an effective system for national data collection that compiles statistical data relevant to the monitoring of the implementation of the Convention at the national level, including disaggregated data on complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions of cases of torture and ill-treatment by law enforcement and prison personnel, inter-prisoner violence, trafficking, violence, including domestic and sexual, against women, children and other vulnerable groups, as well as on means of redress, including compensation and rehabilitation, provided to the victims. GE.13-46043 111

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