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• Instruct the Ministry of Labor to provide adequate compensation to detainees and former detainees for the forced labor they performed while in detention. • Promptly ratify and effectively implement ILO Convention No. 105 (Abolition of Forced Labor). • To meet the obligations under ILO Convention 29, revise the Penal Code to establish a specific criminal offence applicable to forced labor. Regarding Health Care and Drug Dependency Treatment for Drug Users • Instruct the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Labor, and other relevant ministries and departments, and provincial, district, and commune-level People’s Committees, to expand access to voluntary, community-based drug dependency treatment and ensure that such treatment is medically appropriate and comports with international standards. • Instruct the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labor, other relevant ministries and departments, and provincial, district, and commune-level People’s Committees to expand access to voluntary, community-based drug dependency treatment for children, and ensure that such services are age-specific, medically appropriate, and include educational components. • Instruct the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labor, other relevant ministries and departments, and provincial, district, and commune-level People’s Committees to expand access to voluntary, community-based drug dependency treatment that addresses the special needs of women and girls who use drugs. • Guarantee full cooperation with the special rapporteur on the right to health in relation to any investigations or inquiries he undertakes into practices in the drug detention centers. To Vietnamese and Foreign Companies That Have Commercial Relationships with Drug Detention Centers in Vietnam • Cease all commercial relationships (including through sub-contractors and subsub-contractors) with Vietnam’s drug detention centers. • Establish an internal monitoring process within companies that is responsible for identifying situations in which the company may be failing to respect a range of relevant human rights, including the prohibition on forced labor, illegal child labor, unlawful payment of wages below the minimum wage, exploitative working conditions, etc., and taking the appropriate remedial measures. Monitors should be sufficiently independent of local suppliers. 99 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | SEPTEMBER 2011
To United Nations Agencies, including UNODC, WHO, OHCHR and UNAIDS • Publicly call for: i) detainees in Vietnam’s drug detention centers to be released, ii) the closure of the centers, iii) an investigation into allegations of human rights violations inside such centers, iv) holding those responsible for such violations to account, and v) reasonable compensation for detainees and former detainees for harm to their physical and mental health suffered during detention. • Review all funding, programming, and activities directed to assisting Vietnam’s drug detention centers to ensure no funding is supporting policies or programs that violate international human rights law, including prohibitions on arbitrary detention, forced labor, torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. • Actively encourage the Vietnamese government to expand voluntary, communitybased drug dependency treatment and ensure that such treatment is medically appropriate and comports with international standards. • Support and provide capacity-building projects for drug dependency treatment to Ministry of Health and NGOs. To the Special Rapporteurs on Torture and on the Right to Health • Publicly call for: i) detainees in Vietnam’s drug detention centers to be released, ii) the closure of the centers, iii) an investigation into allegations of human rights violations inside such centers, iv) holding those responsible for such violations to account, and v) reasonable compensation for detainees and former detainees for harm to their physical and mental health suffered during detention. • Request an invitation to visit Vietnam to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by law enforcement officers and staff of drug detention centers in Vietnam against people who use drugs. To the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Committee on the <strong>Rights</strong> of the Child • Raise concerns with Vietnam’s government regarding allegations of arbitrary detention, forced labor, torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and other abuses committed against people who use drugs (including children) by law enforcement officers and staff of drug detention centers in Vietnam. • Request further information from Vietnam’s government in its periodic reports on the detention and treatment of people in drug detention centers, including children. THE REHAB ARCHIPELAGO 100
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