III. Legal Analysis Council of Europe The CoE passed a recommendation along with Resolution 1707. The most important recommendation calls for a consultation body, comprised of experts from governmental committee bodies and NGOs, to look further into the 10 guiding principles.92 As of 2015, there are many monitoring committees participating in monitoring detention centers since Resolution 1707. The three most important are the CPT, ECSR, and the ECRI.93 The CDCJ plans on codifying existing international standards relating to detention conditions in closed administrative centers and, as appropriate, in other places of non-penal detention. The committee intends to rely on the European Prison Rules as a model to improve conditions of detention centers.94The CoE is still working on finding alternatives to detention. This was included in Resolution 1707. The CDDH has decided to explore further work on the legal and practical effective alternatives to detention, by December 2017.95 There must be better enforcement mechanisms in place to ensure compliance with the standards. The resolutions failed to identify any benchmark dates to measure compliance. The resolutions failed to state how the CoE would monitor the Member States or if the CoE would require any follow-up reporting on the recommended changes. Finally, there is an issue with access to information. The two handbooks referred to earlier were not easy to find on the CoE website or with a simple Google search. There is no way an asylum seeker or their attorney could find these handbooks without having knowledge that these two handbooks exist. Although, the 92 EUR. PARL. ASS., supra note 1. EUR. PARL. ASS., supra note 35. 94 Id. 95 Id. 93 28

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