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.
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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
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See also, the Working Document of the Committee against Torture on article 14
(46th session, May 9 - June 3, 2011).
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