However, traditional customs sustain a value system which distinguishes between people on the basis of social status and sex. The continuing breakdown of those customs, including the breakdown of the extended family, has contributed to a number of human rights problems, including violence against women and child neglect with abusers acting with increasing impunity. There were no reports of political or other extrajudicial killings. There were no reports of politically motivated disappearances. There was no known incidence of torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.
Prison conditions meet minimum international standards.
There are no local organizations concerning themselves solely with human rights, and there have been no requests for visits from human rights monitors. Accordingly, the question of visits by human rights monitors remains undefined. Arbitrary Arrest, Detention, or Exile Legal procedures, for the most part patterned after U.S. law, provide for due process, which is carefully observed. There is no governmental use of exile for political purposes. The Constitution provides for an independent judiciary, and it is independent in practice.