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(d)
Increase in the recruitment of women into the police;
(e) Increase in the number of French-speaking or Creole-speaking United
Nations Police officers;
(f)
90.
Routine learning of Creole by United Nations Police officers.
On the penitentiary system, he recommends the following:
(a) Initiation of a national programme for the building of new prisons to
relieve the strain on the penitentiary system and to address the issues of prison
overcrowding and the use of police stations as places of detention;
(b) Continuation of the recruitment, vetting and supervision of prison
administration personnel;
(c) Implementation, with ICRC assistance, of a programme of health control
and monitoring at penitentiary establishments;
(d) Adoption of measures to ensure that prisons are supplied with sufficient
stocks of medicines, drugs and provisions to guarantee detainees’ right of access to
medical care and food;
(e) Conferment of a new, nationwide mandate on the Consultative
Commission on Prolonged Pretrial Detention that will enable it to examine, in
accordance with clear and verifiable criteria, cases involving non-serious crimes or
arbitrary detention, and adoption of measures to ensure that a prisoner’s discharge
may only be authorized by a working group composed of judges, in order to prevent
the release of dangerous criminals.
91.
On the Office of the Ombudsman, he recommends the following:
(a) Adoption of the legislative bill revising the functions of the Office of the
Ombudsman and the allocation to it of a budget to allow, in particular, the setting up
of regional bureaux that will put the institution in closer contact with its
beneficiaries;
(b)
Creation of the post of Deputy Ombudsman;
(c) Setting up of a programme to support the development of the mandate of
the Office of the Ombudsman and the organization of its work at the national and
regional levels, with the involvement of national stakeholders in Haiti, the OHCHR
National Institutions Unit and the network of the International Coordinating
Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human
Rights.
92.
On combating violence against women, he advocates the following:
(a) Continuation and extension of the large-scale campaign to eradicate
sexist stereotypes in schools, the media and advertising;
(b) Adoption of the law on all forms of violence against women including
domestic violence, the law on filiation and responsible parenthood and the law on
working conditions of paid domestic staff.
93.
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On the deportee issue, he recommends the following:
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