members of groups especially at risk of being tortured because of their ethnicity, indigenous status, gender, sexual orientation, transgender identity, age, religious belief or affiliation, political or other opinion, national or social origin, mental or other disability, health or economic status. 6. Under Article 14 of the CAT, all States Parties are required to “ensure in its legal system that the victim of an act of torture obtains redress and has an enforceable right to fair and adequate compensation, including the means for as full rehabilitation as possible.”75 The government should take necessary measures in this regard. For this matter, a mechanism should also be developed for ensuring the participation of the victim in the reparation process, and the restoration of dignity of the victim should be the overarching objective in the provision of redress. 75 54 See, section 1 of the Working Document of the Committee against Torture on Article 14 (46th session, May 9 - June 3, 2011) The Committee against Torture considers that the term “redress” in article 14 encompasses the concepts of “reparation” and “effective remedy”. Victims are persons who individually or collectively suffered harm, including physical or mental injury, emotional suffering, economic loss or substantial impairment of their fundamental rights, through acts or omissions that constitute violations of the Convention. A person should be considered a victim regardless whether the perpetrator of the violation is identified, apprehended, prosecuted or convicted. According to the working document of the Committee against Torture, the term ‘victim’ also includes the immediate family or dependants of the victim and persons who have suffered harm in intervening to assist victims in distress or to prevent victimisation.

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