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(f)
Children who are detained have no or little access to education or vocational
training, limited access to counselling services, including for drug and alcohol addiction,
and to recreational activities;
(g)
Monitoring the situation of children in prisons is subjected to serious
restrictions;
(h)
There is a lack of rehabilitation programmes and a limited number of
specialized trained staff and social workers to deal with children in contact with the law.
77.
The Committee recommends that the State party bring the system of juvenile
justice fully in line with the Convention, in particular articles 37, 39 and 40, and with
other relevant standards, including the Standard Minimum Rules for the
Administration of Juvenile Justice (the Beijing Rules), the Guidelines for the
Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (the Riyadh Guidelines), the Rules for the
Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty (the Havana Rules), the Vienna
Guidelines for Action on Children in the Criminal Justice System; and the
Committee’s general comment No. 10 (2007) on the rights of the child in juvenile
justice. In particular, the Committee urges the State party to:
(a)
Establish specialized juvenile courts throughout the country;
(b)
Ensure that no child is subjected to abuse and torture when in contact or
in conflict with the law, especially during the stages of arrest and investigation ;
(c)
Provide children, both victims and accused, with adequate legal and
other assistance at an early stage of the procedure and throughout the legal
proceedings;
(d)
Ensure that children deprived of liberty or in rehabilitation centres or
detention facilities are never kept with adults, that they have a safe, child-sensitive
environment, that they maintain regular contact with their families and are provided
with food, education and vocational training;
(e)
Provide children deprived of liberty in any form the right to review the
placement decision;
(f)
Promote alternative measures to detention, such as diversion, probation,
counselling, community service or suspended sentences, wherever possible;
(g)
Request further technical assistance in the area of juvenile justice and
police training from the Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice, which includes
UNODC, UNICEF, OHCHR, and NGOs.
Protection of witnesses and victims of crimes
78.
The Committee recommends that the State party ensure, through adequate
legal provisions and regulations, that all children victims and/or witnesses of crimes,
e.g. abuse, domestic violence, sexual and economic exploitation, abduction and
trafficking, are provided with the protection required by the Convention and that the
State party take fully into account the United Nations Guidelines on Justice in Matters
Involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime (Economic and Social Council
resolution 2005/20, annex).
Children of Vietnamese origin
79.
The Committee is concerned that children of Vietnamese origin are still not
recognized as citizens, which leads them to live in poor and segregated conditions without
access to identity documents and makes them very vulnerable to trafficking and
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