Press Freedoms 59. Take the necessary measures that ensure freedom of expression and access to information. Death Penalty and Torture and Cruel and Inhuman Treatment and Punishment 60. In its next report provide the number of persons on death row. 61. To observe the moratorium on the death penalty and take measures for its total abolition. 62. Takes urgent and concrete measures to abolish laws that allow corporal punishment including stoning, amputation, cross-amputation and whipping. 63. Should include standards like the Robben Island Guidelines in the human rights program of Sudan Police College and the training of prison officers. 64. Consider enacting a law criminalizing torture. 65. Appoints an independent commission to investigate all extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances and torture by the police and make public its findings. National Security Act 66. Repeal Article 52(3) of the National Security Act 2010 that provides members of the NISS and their associates with immunity from criminal and civil procedures. 67. Takes immediate steps to close down all unofficial places of detention. 68. Adopts a holistic approach to prison decongestion and conditions of detention in the prisons, ensuring that the Prison Service get adequate resources, including funding to improve living conditions and access to health care in prisons and places of detention. Women 69. Enacts legislation prohibiting female genital mutilations, violence and other discriminatory practices against women. 70. Takes measures to ensure female participation at all levels of decision making, including considering enacting a law on affirmative action. 7

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