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(b)
Implement the national plan of action against sexual and commercial
exploitation of children, taking into account the Declaration and Agenda for Action and the
Global Commitment adopted at the 1996 and 2001 World Congresses against Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children;
(c)
Continue and strengthen its efforts to combat trafficking of women and
children, including through the new national plan of action to prevent trafficking in women
and children, and ensure that this programme is provided with sufficient resources to
guarantee its effective implementation;
(d)
Establish recovery and social reintegration programmes for child victims;
(e)
Ratify the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime.
Street children
68.
The Committee is extremely concerned at:
(a)
The increasing number of street children and unacceptable policies and
programmes implemented by the juvenile affairs services to address this situation;
(b)
The special preventive sweeps such as “Lesson”, “Street children”, “Railway
station” and “Holiday” and at the keeping of a special data base of information on these children
which is being considered as social assistance aimed at preventing abandonment and criminality;
(c)
The vulnerability of street children to, inter alia, sexual abuse, violence, including
from the police, exploitation, lack of access to education, substance abuse, sexually transmitted
diseases, HIV/AIDS and malnutrition.
69.
The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a)
Ensure that street children are provided with adequate nutrition, clothing,
housing, health care and educational opportunities, including vocational and life-skills
training, in order to support their full development;
(b)
Ensure that street children are provided with services that promote physical
and psychological recovery and social reintegration;
(c)
Undertake a study to assess the scope and causes of the phenomenon and
consider establishing a comprehensive strategy, to address the increasingly large number
of street children, with the aim of preventing and reducing this phenomenon in the best
interests of these children and with their participation;
(d)
Consider addressing the situation of street children within the system of
youth social welfare services rather than juvenile affairs services.