Due Process and Conditions of Detention
54. The Commission recommends that South Africa should:
take measures to enhance and ensure the provisions of psychological
services inall detention centres particularly in rural regions;
11.
develop programmes aimed at motivating inmates to participate in
educational programmes;
in.
provide NGOs access to visit detention centres other than for training and
research purposes;
IV.
enhance programmes to curb overcrowding and high incarceration rates as
well as, the prevalence of HIV, AIDS and TB amongst inmates in
correctional centres;
v.
strengthen programmes to fight against high levels of gang-related violent
crimes, maintain safe custody and strengthen rehabilitation programmes
in correctional centres;
VI.
continue to ensure human rights training for the police and other law
enforcement officers and promote the presence of female Police Officers
within the police services;
Vll.
make use of the Commission's Guidelines on Conditions of Arrest, Police
Custody and Pre-trial Detention in Africa (Luanda Guidelines) to deal with the
challenges of arbitrary arrests and pre-trial detention.
Older Persons and People with Disabilities
55. The Commission recommends that South Africa should:
i.
provide adequate disaggregated data in its next Periodic Report on the
gender, age, type of disability and other elements that are important in
formulating policies for the disabled; and
ii.
develop a proactive sensitisation policy aimed at reducing or
eliminating stereotypes and other perceptions which undermine the full
realisation ofthe rights ofolder persons and persons with disabilities.
Indigenous Populations/Communities
56. The Commission recommends that South Africa should:
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