CAT/C/PRY/CO/4-6
(c)
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (3
October 2001);
(d)
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
involvement of children in armed conflict (27 September 2002) and Optional Protocol to
the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography (18 August 2003);
(e)
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (18 August 2003). The Committee notes
with satisfaction that the State party has abolished the death penalty and recommends that
the State party expressly eliminate the death penalty from the military justice system;
(f)
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (18 August 2003);
(g)
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and
Children, supplementing the Convention (22 September 2004);
(h)
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2 December 2005);
(i)
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional
Protocol (3 September 2008);
(j)
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant
Workers and Members of Their Families (23 September 2008);
(k)
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance (3 August 2010).
5.
The Committee is pleased to note that the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment visited the State party in
March 2009 and made a follow-up visit in September 2010, and that the State party has
authorized the publication of the Subcommittee’s reports and submitted its written replies
thereto.
6.
The Committee congratulates the State party on the declaration it made on 29 May
2002 recognizing the competence of the Committee to receive communications under
articles 21 and 22 of the Convention against Torture.
7.
The Committee notes with satisfaction that in 2003 the State party extended a
standing invitation to visit the country to all Human Rights Council special procedure
mandate holders. Since the consideration of its last periodic report, the State party has
hosted visits from four of the Council’s rapporteurs, including the Special Rapporteur on
the question of torture.
8.
The Committee takes note of the State party’s initiatives to review its legislation
with a view to complying with the Committee’s recommendations and improving
implementation of the Convention. These initiatives include the following:
(a)
The adoption on 20 April 2011 of Act No. 4288, establishing the national
mechanism for the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment;
(b)
The adoption on 12 October 2011 of Organization Act No. 4423 on the
Ministry of Defence, which gives the latter operational and financial independence;
(c)
The adoption on 11 August 2011 of Act No. 4381, making the right of
victims of human rights violations during the 1954–1959 dictatorship to claim
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