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57.
The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a)
Ensures the full implementation of the child labour provisions and take all
necessary measures to prevent child labour, in rural as well as urban areas (child domestic
workers);
(b)
Develop preventive measures that target those soliciting and providing sexual
services, including materials on the legislation concerning the sexual abuse and exploitation
of minors, and education programmes, including programmes in schools on healthy
lifestyles;
(c)
Increase the number of trained labour inspectors and trained professionals
providing psychological counselling and other recovery services to victims;
(d)
Train law enforcement officials, social workers and prosecutors on how to
receive, monitor, investigate and prosecute complaints in a child-sensitive manner.
Sexual exploitation/trafficking
58.
The Committee welcomes the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on
the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. It remains concerned that sexual
exploitation and abuse continue to be serious problems and that the victims of sexual
exploitation do not have access to appropriate recovery and assistance services. The Committee
also remains concerned about the lack of data to determine the real dimension of the problem of
child abuse and sexual exploitation and about the insufficient measures to prevent and combat
trafficking of children.
59.
The Committee recommends the adoption and effective implementation of adequate
legislation to prevent and combat trafficking, sexual exploitation and pornography
involving children. It also recommends the provision of sufficient financial resources for
the implementation of the activities promoted by the new National Committee against
Commercial Sexual Exploitation. The Committee further recommends that the State
party:
(a)
Undertake awareness-raising campaigns, particularly for children, parents
and other caregivers;
(b)
Ensure that trafficked children and children who have been subjected to
sexual exploitation are always treated as victims and that perpetrators are prosecuted;
(c)
Provide adequate programmes of assistance and reintegration for sexually
exploited and/or trafficked children in accordance with the Declaration and Agenda for
Action and the Global Commitment adopted at the 1996 and 2001 World Congresses
against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.