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awareness of young people participating in unregulated employment situations, particularly in
the private sector, agriculture and at home, but is concerned at the lack of effective measures to
reduce and eliminate child labour.
71.
The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a)
Undertake a national survey on the causes and extent of child labour with a
view to adopting and implementing a national plan of action to prevent and combat child
labour;
(b)
Continue and strengthen its efforts to protect all children from economic
exploitation, in particular from the worst forms of child labour, by implementing urgently
ILO Convention No. 182.
Sexual exploitation and trafficking
72.
The Committee is concerned at:
(a)
The growing involvement of children in the sex industry and the apparent
indifference of society towards the issue of child prostitution, including reports of parents
themselves reportedly forcing their children to earn money through prostitution;
(b)
The lack of specialized centres to accommodate and provide qualified services,
including psychotherapeutic and rehabilitation and reintegration programmes, for child victims
of sexual violence.
73.
The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a)
Develop and implement a comprehensive programme to combat trafficking,
child prostitution and other forms of sexual 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 and the
recommendations of CEDAW in this respect (A/56/38, para. 97);
(b)
Adopt measures to reduce the vulnerability of children to traffickers and
establish crisis centres and telephone hotlines to give assistance and run rehabilitation and
social reintegration programmes for child victims of trafficking and/or sexual exploitation;
(c)
Ratify the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime and ensure mechanisms to coordinate and monitor its
implementation;
(d)
Conduct further research relating to the occurrence of child trafficking and
consider seeking technical cooperation of UNICEF in this respect.