A/HRC/11/19* concerns expressed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights about the use of torture in the Chechen Republic as well as concerns by the Committee Against Torture over many ongoing and consistent allegations of torture and ill-treatment committed by law enforcement personnel as well as reports of torture and ill-treatment in unofficial places of detention in the North Caucasus (Australia); GE.09-16259 30. Encourage the use of non-custodial options when sentencing or determining pre-trial measures involving pregnant prisoners and prisoners with children and where women are detained, put in place policies to ensure that all children are able to maintain contact with their mothers (New Zealand); 31. Provide prison guards and law enforcement officials in general, with human rights training specifically focusing on protection of human rights of women, children, national minorities and persons of minority sexual orientation or gender identity; and further to ensure investigation and punishment of all cases of violation of human rights by this personnel (Czech Republic); 32. Adopt specific law on domestic violence (Czech Republic), Adopt legislative measures to outlaw domestic violence if it has not done so already (South Africa); Adopt comprehensive strategy to combat domestic violence (New Zealand); Collect statistical data on cases of violence against women, including domestic violence as specific crime and finally establish shelters and safe housing for victims of domestic violence, that would be locally accessible, sufficiently and sustainably funded and of corresponding capacity (Czech Republic); Enhance the efforts to combat violence against women and to improve women’s access to safe shelter (Sweden); 33. Develop and carry out the whole range of measures for the practical implementation of provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its two Optional Protocols (Belarus); 34. Consolidate measures of national and international nature to ensure the effective fight against trafficking in persons (Belarus); 35. Take further efforts in refining its domestic legislation in various fields of human rights, reforming the judiciary and improving the situation of people who are deprived of their liberty, so as to further ensure the promotion and protection of human rights for its peoples (Malaysia); 36. Prioritize the establishment of meaningful and accessible accountability mechanisms to ensure transparency in the investigation and prosecution of human rights violations, provide effective remedies and legal redress for victims, and take measures to increase the independence of the judiciary and strengthen oversight of the implementation, at the State level, of federal human rights legislation and obligations (New Zealand); 37. Strengthen its ongoing efforts to reform the justice system according to international standards (The Netherlands); Continue improving its legislation towards a judicial reform with a view to having a modern legislation which adapts to new challenges (Nicaragua); Realize its commitments particularly those related to legislative and judicial reform anti-corruption (Viet Nam); Increase its efforts in order to overcome existing challenges in the field of the judicial system, including 21

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