8. Believes that capital punishment should be abolished and there should be no capital punishment in any case,
9. Recommends educating female inmates in nations with high rates of substance abuse by informing them about:
a) the consequences of the same,
b) punishment of drug-related crimes;
10. Encourages member nations to send female inmates who do not pose a direct threat to society to rehabilitation centers which will help:
a) The inmates to be cured of any addiction,
b) Allow inmates to reintegrate into society,
11. Accepts the implementation of intensive background check on all prison personnel, irrespective of their gender and posts to:
a) Minimize the flow of contraband as staff may smuggle prohibited substances into the prison which are exchanged in return of sexual favors;
12. Accepts the convention on the rights of Persons with disabilities to protect, promote and ensure rights and asks member nations to emphasize on the provision of specialized rights to women to ensure the dignity of the prisoner be maintained;
13. Believes that Religion of freedom must be provided to the inmates
14. Reminds the committee of Article 10 of the International Covenant on civil and political rights in order to ensure the liberty of each female prisoner be implemented in the following instances:
a) Where justice has to been granted to the prisoner,
b) Where the prisoner has not been treated with basic human rights and is subjected to humiliation and punishment,
c) Where prisoners of pre trail detention and those of convicted crimes have not been separated from each other,
d) Where there is no separate obligation to juvenile offenders and prisoners,
e) Where the focus of prisoners has not been reform and rehabilitation;
15. Emphasizes on the European convention for the Prevention of Torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment which ensures that the inmate or prisoner is treated with the same equality, liberty and imparted the rights that come under Prisoner Rights law and is not subjected to torture or inhumane treatment or gross human rights violations;
16. Reminds the committee of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949 and the Additional Protocol that comes under its mandate to provide adequate facilities including food, shelter, freedom to preach, practice and propagate ideals under detention of staff for ‘Prisoners of War’,
17. Draws the attention of the committee towards pre trial detention and ensure the right implementation of the same in the following :
a) Where it is overused in countries and the pre trail detention population is more than the convicted prisoner population,
b) To ensure that that the same does not violate international standards including the ICCPR(International convention of civil and political rights) which elaborates on pre trail detention,
c) Where it is a situation of abuse to the criminal justice process and ensures that the detainee is not vulnerable and the rights are not abused and that the access to justice is not hindered,
d) Where conditions for pre trail detainees are worse than normal prisoner conditions and to ensure safe, secure and a good living condition until a verdict is declared unto them,
e) Where there is a lack of incomes in prisons and there is no legal implication of rights and to ensure proper funding of the prisons and to provide legal advice and consultation to prisoners;
18. Supports the reformation of the Prison Management system where the use of laws are outdated and radical in nature and encourage training of staff under the mandate of the UNODC to develop training programs to ensure high staff morale and also contribute towards the establishment of international norms and standards to be followed in prisons;
19. Encourages adequate medical care to the monthly menstrual cycle that females undergo and ensure a safe and secure environment away from the prison confinement facility to provide a suitable environment for the birth of a child when the mother undergoes delivery;
20. Requests the proper education of female prisoners to contribute towards their existence after release under the supervision of the member nations government to prevent radicalization and ensure the prisoner does not re enter the facility after initial release;
21. Reaffirms the proper medical treatment of the female prisoners with respect to overuse of drugs, alcohol or any other substance and ensure the prisoner is subjected to counseling, psychiatric treatment, one to one counseling and group therapy which is under constant sessions with a qualified doctor of medicine and psychiatric treatment to ensure the prisoner does not go through mental depression or any sort of chronic disorder;
22. Encourages the member nations of the world to implement the First Amendment Act of the Prisoners Rights law which grants the free propagation of religion and culture within prison boundaries to the extent that the ideology does not interfere into the personal interpretation of the prisoner itself;
23. Draws the attention of the committee towards the Human Rights Commission and the Model Prison Manual of 2003 to classify women prisoners under suitable categories such as:
a) Under trial prisoners and convicted prisoners,
b) Habitual Prisoners and Casual prisoners ,
c) Habitual prisoner, prostitutes and brothel keepers must be confined separately,
d) Adolescent and adult female prisoners,
e) Pregnant prisoners
f) Prisoners with mental health issues
g) Political/Civil Prisoners and Convicts/Under trial Prisoners;
24. Requests the nations to specifically analyze and tackle issues pertaining to the Sexually transmitted diseases and infections in direct contact and provide services including HIV/AIDS testing, breast and cervical screening, family planning and sexual health services along with modern facilities such as X rays, ECG, Ultrasound and sonography to be available to impregnated women to address to health and mental development of the fetus;./
25. Calls for the establishment of prison communities within the reform system,
where inmates develop constructive coping mechanisms and address and work towards eliminating factors that led to their incarceration by participating in programmes including but not limited to:
a) Educational and vocational training programs ,
b) Group-counselling, relapse prevention and opioid-replacement therapy for drug offenders who will be mandated to report on a weekly-basis to corrective-officials and consent to random urine tests ;
26. Affirms the need to create a curtailed-approach to pregnant inmates including but not restricted to:
a) Provision of dietary supplements such as folic acid and vitamin D pills,
b) Provision of bottom bunk beds and avoiding the assignment of strenuous physical tasks to them up to a period of at least six weeks’post-partum,
c) Counselling on post-partum depression including posting the Edinburgh 10-Question Postnatal Scale in the facility ,
d) Careful prior-assessment by the department of correctional services before the use of restraints during child birth, but strongly suggesting that handcuffs be the only form of restraint used.