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13.
Ensure that the interrogation of detainees in police custody are systematically
monitored and recorded and that the Code of Criminal Procedure is harmonized
with article 15 of the Convention against Torture and article 14, paragraph 3,
of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and uphold the right
of defence to have access to all relevant materials (Algeria); (i) Work more
systematically and intensively to bring the risk of forced confession to the
attention of the police, (ii) review interrogation monitoring procedures, (iii) reexamine the use of prolonged police detention and (iv) review the Criminal Code
to ensure its conformity with article 15 of the Convention against Torture, in
order to avoid the police and judiciary putting excessive pressure on the accused
to confess (Belgium); Institute mechanisms to enhance procedural guarantees for
the detention of detainees (Canada); Review the “daiyo kangoku” system in
order to ensure that the detention procedure is consistent with its obligations
under human rights law and implement the Committee against Torture’s
recommendation with regard to external monitoring of police custody (United
Kingdom);
14.
Continue to take measures to reduce the incidence of violence against women
and children, inter alia, by ensuring that law enforcement officials receive
human rights training, and to fund recovery and counselling centres for victims
of violence (Canada);
15.
Continue the efforts to combat trafficking in persons with a special emphasis on
women and children (Canada);
16.
Develop a mechanism to ensure the prompt return of children who have been
wrongly removed from or prevented from returning to their habitual place of
residence (Canada);
17.
Prohibit expressly all forms of corporal punishment of children and promote
positive and non-violent forms of discipline (Italy);
18.
Take concrete measures to address, once and for all, the Japanese Military
Sexual Slavery and other violations committed in the past in other countries
including Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea);
19.
Review, inter alia, the land rights and other rights of the Ainu population and
harmonize them with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples. (Algeria); Urge Japan to seek ways to initiating a dialogue with its
indigenous peoples so that it can implement the United Nations Declaration on
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Guatemala);
20.
Harmonize the procedures for reviewing asylum decisions with the Convention
against Torture and other relevant human rights treaties and provide State legal
aid for migrants who need it (Algeria);
21.
Permit international monitors to examine immigration detention centres (United
States of America);
22.
Establish an independent body to review asylum applications (Slovakia);
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