A/HRC/28/68/Add.4 (c) Ensure that time spent in custody on remand is taken into account during sentencing; (d) Provide further training to the judiciary in case management, implement a fast-track system for less serious cases and ensure that all detainees are tried within a reasonable period; (e) sentences; Provide a swift appeal process for the review of convictions and (f) Divert some of the funds used for incarceration to support a project to identify low-risk offenders and divert or release them using alternative measures. 112. With regard to conditions of detention, the Government should: (a) Move away from a purely punitive penal system to a more modern approach that includes the reform, rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates, in accordance with international human rights standards; (b) Recall that, regardless of the level of development of the country, it is obliged to ensure minimum standards of conditions of detention, in accordance with the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners; (c) Provide each inmate with the minimum acceptable amount of floor space and cubic quantity of air, a separate bed, adequate sanitary conditions and exercise; (d) Urgently improve access to and the quality of health care to provide a minimum standard of medical care, and employ a sufficient number of qualified doctors, including for psychiatric and dental care, in addition to medical assistants and nurses; (e) Establish an independent body under the Ministry of Health to regulate and improve the quantity and quality of prison food and establish a farming programme in prisons to offset food costs and provide better variety and nutrition; (f) Seek donations from civil society to increase opportunities for education, recreation and training programmes. 113. With regard to the death penalty, the Government should: (a) Declare an official moratorium with a view to the abolition of the death penalty, as the conditional moratorium subjects condemned prisoners to the “death row phenomenon” and constitutes ill-treatment or even torture; (b) Pending the abolition of the death penalty, remove from the law any mandatory imposition of the death penalty; (c) Commute all outstanding death sentences to term sentences and ensure that those who had death sentences are allowed visits by their lawyers and family members; (d) Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. 114. With regard to children, the Government should: (a) Expedite the ratification of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child; (b) Explicitly prohibit all forms of corporal punishment without exception and in all settings, including the home, schools and alternative care settings; 22

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