Mongolia The ACJ recommends that the National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia (NHRCM) urges its Government to address the following issues: • the need for Mongolia to become a party to the OPCAT and the Refugee Convention; • the 14 day detention period under the Criminal Procedure Codes for a suspect; • the need to legislate the inadmissibility of confessions obtained through torture; • the need to ensure domestic legislation conforms with international standards with regard to torture and detention; • the need to continue the training programmes instituted by the Mongolian NHRC; • the abuses recorded by the NHRC of Mongolia in relation to interrogation and detention; • the failure to provide adequate conditions of detention in detention centres and prisons; and • the need to implement the recommendations which will arise from the current public inquiry on torture. Nepal The ACJ recommends that the National Human Rights Commission of Nepal (NRCHP) urges its Government to address the following issues: • the need to become a party to the OPCAT, the Refugee convention, the Protocols to the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute. • the narrow definition of torture in both the Constitution and the Torture Compensation Act, including the failure to define torture as a criminal offence; • the absence of any provision for the rehabilitation of victims of torture; • the absence of any witness protection provisions; • inadequate accountability provisions and ineffective punishment provisions; • the absence of any capacity to conduct impartial and independent investigation of cases of torture; 48