A/HRC/31/78 Cohesion relate to one another in order to smooth the way for the provision of redress; (h) Build a bridge between the pilot phase of the reparation process and the overall strategy for providing victims with redress. 87. The Independent Expert recommends that the Ivorian authorities take the following actions in order to improve prison conditions: (a) Act in accordance with international standards governing arrests and custody. Persons taken into custody should be held in a known, legally registered location and should enjoy all their rights (including the right to have the assistance of a lawyer and the right to be brought promptly before a judge); (b) Proceed with prison reform efforts with all due diligence; (c) Promptly put an end, by lawful means, to the tyranny exercised by certain prison bosses over the rest of the prison population in the Abidjan Detention and Correctional Centre; (d) Relocate the Juvenile Observation Centre that is currently sited within the Abidjan Detention and Correctional Centre as quickly as possible; (e) Take steps to ensure that all minors who are in custody are in all cases held separately from adult prisoners, regardless of the stage of the legal proceedings concerned; (f) Take steps to ensure, under the supervision of the justice system, that the rights of the children housed in the Dabou Centre are upheld; (g) Protect the children known as “talibés” from all forms of exploitation. 88. The Independent Expert recommends that the Ivorian authorities take the following actions with respect to the advancement of women: (a) Pass the bill designed to provide women with equal opportunities to take up public office and promulgate that law without delay; (b) Amend the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Criminal Code to include a clear definition of rape that specifies all of the constituent elements of the offence and continue to combat all forms of violence against women by, inter alia, working to heighten awareness of this problem and to ensure that perpetrators of rape and violence against women do not go unpunished; (c) Continue to address the problem of early pregnancies among students and early marriage; (d) Continue to conduct campaigns discrimination and violence against women. to heighten awareness of 89. The Independent Expert recommends that the international community take the following actions: (a) Continue to assist Côte d’Ivoire to consolidate peace and its national reconciliation process; (b) Assist Côte d’Ivoire to build the capacity of its justice system and to upgrade its correctional facilities, particularly its custodial facilities and facilities for the rehabilitation of minors; (c) Assist Côte d’Ivoire to protect children and promote the advancement of women; 22/23 GE.16-00901

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