A/HRC/22/18 number of questions are raised in this context, among which the investigators’ access to forensic data and evidence found and/or conserved by CMP, and invited the Turkish authorities to provide replies to all the questions raised by the Committee, while also drawing on all relevant information contained in military archives and reports. Concerning the case of Varnava and Others v. Turkey, the Committee of Ministers’ Deputies called upon the authorities to provide further information on the conduct of investigations in the cases in issue in this judgment, as well as on the payment of just satisfaction granted by the Court. 18. In its concluding observations on Turkey (CAT/C/TUR/CO/3), the Committee against Torture expressed concern in particular at “the lack of information on progress in investigating disappearances cases for which the State party has been found in violation of articles 2, 3 and 5 under the European Convention on Human Rights (Cyprus v. Turkey and Timurtas v. Turkey of the European Court of Human Rights)” (para. 9). According to the Committee, “this lack of investigation and follow-up raises serious questions with respect to the State party’s failure to meet its obligations under the Convention and, as concluded by the European Court of Human Rights, constitutes a continuing violation with respect to relatives of the victims (arts. 12 and 13)” (ibid.). The Committee recommended Turkey to take prompt measures to ensure effective, transparent and independent investigations into all outstanding cases of alleged disappearances, including those cited by the European Court of Human Rights, carry out prosecutions as appropriate, and notify relatives of the victims of the outcomes of such investigations and prosecutions. The Committee furthermore called upon Turkey to consider signing and ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. 19. The Human Rights Committee expressed concern in its concluding observations on Turkey (CCPR/C/TUR/CO/1) that “no comprehensive approach to cases of enforced disappearance and exhumations has been adopted, including in those cited by the European Court of Human Rights (Cyprus v. Turkey and numerous other individual cases)” (para. 11). The Committee recommended that Turkey “should ensure the effective, transparent and independent investigations into all outstanding cases of alleged disappearances” and that in all such cases it “should prosecute and punish the perpetrators and grant effective reparation, including appropriate compensation, to victims or their families” (ibid.). B. Non-discrimination 20. According to article 7 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. 14 Furthermore, all are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and against any incitement to such discrimination. 21. Cyprus is still considered to have the highest proportion of internally displaced persons in terms of the percentage of its population (up to 22 per cent). 15 In the area under the control of the Government of the Republic of Cyprus, there were up to 208,000 of internally displaced persons at the end of 2011, including over 86,000 people born to people with displaced status. Discrimination against children of internally displaced women with “refugee status” in access to the status partially ended in 2011, as the children of women with displaced person status became eligible for more of the same benefits as 14 15 8 See also article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Global Overview 2011 – People internally displaced by conflict and violence (Geneva, 2012), pp. 17 and 66.