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(f) Promote nationwide, in cooperation with Parliament, the signing of agreements
similar to those signed in South Kivu and Kasai, Orientale Province, as evidence of a
commitment to combating impunity for the perpetrators of sexual violence;
(g) Consider appointing investigating judges in each prosecutor’s office in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo specializing in cases of sexual violence.
67. With regard to measures to improve conditions of detention and ensure better respect
for minimum rules on the treatment of detainees, the independent expert reiterates that the
Government should:
(a) Adopt urgent measures to build and/or refurbish prisons and other places of
detention, strengthen security and improve conditions of detention;
(b) Adopt any emergency measures needed to address the problem of malnutrition
in prisons, including by giving priority to the allocation and proper management of funds
for food for prisoners;
(c) Reinstate in prisons the activities of livestock breeding, crop growing and
cultivation of fresh produce with a view to increasing food self-sufficiency, in particular by
implementing long-term projects, such as prison farms;
(d) Reduce prison overcrowding and thus the number of inmates to feed, by such
measures as reducing the use and length of remand in custody and greater use of parole;
(e) Build or renovate, following an audit of the condition of existing infrastructure
and a needs analysis, certain central and district prisons;
(f) Renovate at least two military prisons in order to reduce overcrowding in other
prisons, and separate civilian and military detainees.
68.
The independent expert recommends that Parliament should:
(a) Adopt laws essential for the administration of justice and for other areas of
national life, including:
(i)
A law providing for the application of the Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court;
(ii)
A framework law on the organization and functioning of the new national
human rights institution;
(iii)
A framework law on the organization and functioning of the national
police;
(iv)
A law criminalizing torture;
(v)
A law reforming prison administration;
(vi)
A law on the integration of the army and reform of the security forces;
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