CAT: A Study on Bangladesh Compliance 7. The national legislation should establish concrete mechanisms and programmes for providing rehabilitation to a victim or survivor of torture or ill-treatment. It is necessary to ensure that the domestic laws, to the extent possible, provide that a victim who has suffered violence or trauma should benefit from special consideration and care to avoid her re-traumatisation in the course of legal and administrative procedures designed to secure justice and reparation. 7.2. Law Enforcement76 1. Like any States Party to the CAT, Bangladesh is obliged to adopt specific as well as effective measures to prevent public authorities and other persons acting in an official capacity from directly committing, instigating, inciting, encouraging, acquiescing in or otherwise participating or being complicit in acts of torture as defined in the Convention. Thus, effective legal measures should be adopted to prevent such authorities or others acting in an official capacity or under cover of law, from consenting to or acquiescing in any acts of torture. The Committee against Torture has concluded that States parties are in violation of the Convention when they fail to fulfil these obligations. 2. The Committee against Torture has emphasised new methods of prevention of toture, such as having same sex 76 See also, the Working Document of the Committee against Torture on article 14 (46th session, May 9 - June 3, 2011). 55

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