prohibition of violence against women including traditional practices, such as FGM, and continue awareness-raising campaigns to eradicate such practices, and expedite the adoption of the Violence against Women Bill against women in critical areas, such as female genital mutilation and early marriage. However, such practices persisted and enjoyed social acceptance. No effective mechanisms to enforce existing prohibitions were in place. Lagos, Cross Rivers Ebonyi and Jigawa states. CEDAW is yet to be incorporated. However, the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs is working with a coalition of NGOs to represent the CEDAW Domestication Bill to the National Assembly. Nigeria accepted the recommendations to domesticate CEDAW, to repeal all laws that allow violence and discrimination against women and to continue awareness raising campaigns to eradicate traditional practices as FGM. (x) Security personnel shall undergo extensive and thorough training using a curriculum that incorporates human rights education throughout and that includes training in effective interrogation techniques and the proper use of policing equipment, and that existing personnel receive continuing education Law enforcement is seriously under-resourced and consequently, adequate training is lacking. Some human rights training is offered to senior personnel. Some interrogation techniques training is provided, but the extreme lack of investigative equipment and facilities risks rendering any training obsolete. Non-governmental sources: The Nigeria Police Force is currently reviewing their training curriculum. A bill is pending before the National Assembly. (y) Security personnel recommended for United Nations, as well as regional, peacekeeping operations should be scrupulously vetted for their suitability to serve There was no regular or systematic mechanism, or activities related to independent visits to detention facilities. Non-governmental sources: Nigeria ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture on 27 July 2009. No independent monitoring mechanism has been established yet. A/HRC/13/39/Add.6 141 (z) The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture should be ratified, and a truly independent monitoring mechanism should be established where the members of the visiting commissions would be appointed for a fixed