A/HRC/20/12 discrimination of any kind, including any form of indirect discrimination or perceived discrimination, in particular regarding access to social and health services, participation in public life, law enforcement and judiciary and any other public service. On administration of justice 86. The authorities should urgently address investigative deficiencies, severe patterns of abuses and widespread corruption of the police forces through a comprehensive reform, with the support of the international community. Urgent changes are needed in particular in the criteria for assessment of the performance of law enforcement bodies and in the incentive structure for investigators and police officers. 87. The authorities should support continued efforts of the Office of the General Prosecutor to strengthen prosecutorial functions and performances. The orders issued in 2011 by the General Prosecutor on strengthening prosecutorial oversight (regulations N40, N70 and N76) should be supported to enable their comprehensive implementation. 88. The authorities should take urgent steps to address the current and past deficiencies in the protection of rights to fair trials. The Government should conduct an assessment of all judicial proceedings related to the June 2010 violence reviewed by the Supreme Court and in which there have been allegations of serious violations of defendants’ fair trial rights. In case of a retrial, the hearings should take place in the north of the country in order to ensure the impartiality of judges. 89. The authorities should ensure that lawyers are able to perform all of their professional functions without intimidation, hindrance, harassment or improper interference. Judges should have recourse to disciplinary measures, including administrative detention, to halt violent behaviour in audiences attending trials. Prosecutors should react promptly to attacks against lawyers and witnesses and launch criminal investigations for serious incidents. On torture and detention 90. The authorities should ensure timely and effective investigations into all cases and allegations of torture and ill-treatment, and ensure that victims are protected from adverse repercussions when investigations or prosecutions of law enforcement bodies are launched. 91. The authorities should bring national legislation into compliance with the Convention against Torture and establish clear procedural legal safeguards against torture at all stages of the legal process. 92. The authorities should complete the reform of the police and declare unambiguously that torture and ill-treatment will not be tolerated, and that perpetrators will be held to account. On economic, social and cultural rights 93. The authorities should make efforts aimed at the development of policies and programmes for poverty alleviation and eradication, with special emphasis on vulnerable groups, including people with disabilities, women and children, and mainstream a gender perspective into all relevant policies and programmes being developed. 16