FINAL 18. Welcomes the accession to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture on 01 July 2014, and further notes with satisfaction that Mozambique has mandated the National Human Rights Commission to undertake regular visits to the country’s prisons and detention centres; 19. Welcomes the measures which have been put in place to modernize the police force, including through establishing the Police Science Academy (ACIPOL) which provides training including courses on human rights for police personnel, and the Basic Penitentiary College of National Prison Service in 2012, which provides training to prison wardens; 20. Notes with satisfaction that the Government began construction of seven (7) new prisons in 2013, and rehabilitated six (6) prisons; 21. Notes that a prison for juveniles has been established in Boane, Maputo Province; 22. Commends the Government’s efforts to ensure access to justice, including through establishing the Legal and Judicial Training Centre (CFJJ) which provides training to judicial officers, creating the Legal and Judicial Aid Institute (IPAJ) which provides legal aid to indigent Mozambicans, and launching a program for the construction of Justice Halls in the country’s districts; 23. Commends the efforts by the Government to ensure access to potable water for the entire population; 24. Notes with satisfaction the political will demonstrated by the Government in promoting the right to employment, including through ratification of a number of ILO Conventions and establishing the Employment and Professional Training Strategy (2006-2015) to provide training to the youth and adults; 25. Commends the enactment of the Law on Socialization of Medicine (law no. 4/87) which provides free maternal and child health care, namely prenatal, birth, postnatal, admission and child care up to the age of five; 26. Welcomes the establishment of the National Partnership for the Promotion of Neonatal and Maternal Health Care in 2010; 27. Commends the Government’s commitment to improving health care for the population through efforts such as the rehabilitation and reopening of 500 primary health care centres; 4

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