E/C.12/BLR/CO/4-6 (c) Monitoring targeted social assistance programmes continuously so as to ensure that they effectively provide poor and disadvantaged individuals and families with a social safety net. 19. The Committee is concerned about the persistence of domestic violence and the absence of specific criminalization of domestic violence and marital rape (art. 10). The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to prevent and combat all forms of domestic violence and take steps to specifically qualify domestic violence and marital rape as a crime. In this regard, the Committee encourages the State party to: (a) victims; Adopt legislation on prevention of domestic violence and protection of (b) Continue conducting awareness-raising campaigns on the negative effects of domestic violence; (c) Encourage the reporting of crimes; and (d) Prosecute and punish perpetrators with appropriate sanctions. 20. The Committee is concerned that a large number of children from socially vulnerable families are deprived of their family environment after parents have had their parental rights removed due to the inability to comply with their child-rearing responsibilities. It is further concerned that these parents are subjected to compulsory labour and that 70 per cent of their wages is retained to compensate for the child-rearing expenses incurred by the State (arts. 6 and 10). The Committee urges the State party to abolish compulsory labour as a punitive measure for parents who have had their parental rights removed and to amend the existing regulations to bring them into conformity with the Covenant. The Committee requests that the State party: (a) Take effective family-support measures to reduce and prevent termination of parental responsibility and ensure that children from socially vulnerable families can be raised with their parents, inter alia, by providing all the necessary support services to parents in order to enable them to carry out their childrearing responsibilities and by monitoring such services to ensure that they effectively address the needs of the children; (b) Ensure that termination of parental responsibility is a measure of last resort and that the best interests of the child, as well as their views, are adequately taken into consideration in this process; (c) Ensure that children deprived of their family environment as a result of an impartial and independent decision are placed in family-type alternative care settings and, to this end, develop a network of foster-care families with a view to reducing to the minimum the need for institutional care for children; (d) Ensure that children can return to their families whenever possible. 21. The Committee is concerned at the insufficient impact of preventive measures to combat trafficking in persons despite the State party’s efforts, including the adoption of the Trafficking in Persons Act in 2012 and the establishment of the International Training Centre on Migration and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (art. 10). The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its preventive measures to combat trafficking in persons and ensure that related efforts determine and 6