The Government of the Macao Special Administrative Region is ready to submit the second periodic report pursuant to the provisions of the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereinafter referred to as the Convention), and the stated report will be incorporated into the sixth report submitted to the Committee Against Torture by the People’s Republic of China pursuant to the provisions of the Convention.
The content of the second periodic report mainly includes the relevant information of the latest development of the implementation of the Convention since the period of coverage of the first report submitted in 2004 and the responses to the things to note and suggestions raised by the Committee Against Torture during its delivery of concluding observations in 2008.
Should anyone or any organisation have any opinion or comment on the implementation situation of the Convention in the Macao SAR, please submit your opinions to the Law Reform and International Law Bureau in writing through the following mean between 30 August and 28 September 2012:
E-mail : info@dsrjdi.ccrj.gov.mo
Address : Alameda Dr. Carlos D’Assumpção, no. 398, Edf. CNAC, 6˚ andar, Macau
Fax : (853) 28750814
The Law Reform and International Law Bureau will put all the opinions collected into careful consideration. For those who plan to have your opinions kept completely or partially confidential, please clearly indicate your wish upon your raise of opinions in writing.
The Chinese text and the English translation of the draft of the second periodic report have already been uploaded to the webpage of the Law Reform and International Law Bureau: www.dsrjdi.ccrj.gov.mo.
The first report (CAT/C/MAC/4), the list of issues of the Committee Against Torture (CAT/C/MAC/Q/4), the Macao SAR’s reply to the Committee’s list of issues (CAT/C/MAC/Q/4/Add.1) and the Committee’s concluding observations (CAT/C/MAC/CO/4) mentioned in the draft of the second periodic report have already been uploaded to the webpage of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights : http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/cats41.htm.
