A/68/44 65. Senegal (1) The Committee against Torture considered the third periodic report of Senegal (CAT/C/SEN/3) at its 1106th and 1109th meetings (CAT/C/SR.1106 and SR.1109), held on 6 and 7 November 2012. At its 1125th meeting (CAT/C/SR.1125), held on 19 November 2012, the Committee adopted the following concluding observations. A. Introduction (2) The Committee welcomes the submission of the third periodic report of the State party, which follows the guidelines on the form and content of periodic reports. It regrets, however, that the State party submitted the report 15 years late. (3) The Committee welcomes the opportunity to renew the dialogue with the State party and to examine the implementation of the Convention with the delegation. It notes that the State party submitted detailed written replies to the list of issues (CAT/C/SEN/Q/3 and Add.1) on the eve of the dialogue and that the delegation provided further information. B. Positive aspects (4) The Committee welcomes the ratification by the State party, in October 2006, of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and of other international instruments during the reporting period, including: (a) The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (June 1999); (b) The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (February 1999); (c) The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (May 2000); (d) The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (March 2004) and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (November 2003); (e) The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing that Convention (October 2003); (f) The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (December 2008); (g) The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (September 2010). (5) The Committee takes note with satisfaction of the State party’s cooperation with the special procedures of the Human Rights Council during several visits by mandate holders during the reporting period, particularly the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. (6) The Committee congratulates the State party on the abolition of the death penalty under the law of 10 December 2004, and takes note of the legislation adopted in relation to the prohibition of torture, including: (a) Act No. 2009-13 of 2 March 2009 establishing the National Observatory of Places of Detention as the national preventive mechanism provided for in the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; 68 GE.13-46043