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53B - In serious criminal cases, the State shall provide a lawyer for an accused person who cannot afford to engage one.
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CAT-16 16.The State party should take measures to increase the resources and strengthen the capacity of the Human Rights Commission of the Maldives, in accordance with the Principles relating to the Status of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (the Paris Principles) and the Guidelines of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 
CAT-38(a) 38.(a) Provide additional financial resources to the National Human Rights Commission of the Maldives in order to enable it to carry out more visits and better fulfil its functions as National Preventive Mechanism, including the function of conducting unannounced visits to all places of deprivation of liberty and to meet in private with persons confined there; and make public the Commission’s reports to the authorities; Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 
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