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(iii) The adoption in 2008 of the Plan of Action for the Promotion of
Employment;
(iv) The implementation of a farmer debt relief programme that reduced the credit
burden of farmers during the global financial crisis;
(v)
The significant increase in national enrolment rates in primary education (98
percent in 2007);
(vi) The enrolment of children of foreign nationals residing in Algeria, depending
on their choice and circumstances, in Algerian schools;
(vii) The creation of the National Training and Linguistic Centre for the Teaching
of Tamazight (CNPLET) by Executive Decree No. 03-470 of 2 December 2003.
C.
Factors and difficulties impeding the implementation of the Covenant
4.
The Committee notes the absence of any significant factors or difficulties preventing
the effective implementation of the Covenant in the State party.
D.
Principal subjects of concerns and recommendations
5.
The Committee is concerned that there is an absence of jurisprudence invoking the
Covenant provisions, despite the primacy of the Covenant over national law established by
article 132 of the Constitution.
The Committee recommends that the State party take effective measures to increase
awareness of Covenant rights among the judiciary and the public at large, and to
ensure that judicial training take full account of the justiciability of Covenant rights.
The Committee draws the attention of the State party to its general comment No. 9 on
the domestic application of the Covenant.
6.
The Committee is concerned that the National Advisory Committee for the Promotion
and Protection of Human Rights is still not fully in compliance with the Paris Principles
relating to the status and functioning of national institutions for protection and promotion of
human rights (General Assembly resolution 48/134 of 20 December 1993), as reflected in
its “B” status accorded to it in 2009 by the International Coordinating Committee of
National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, despite the recent
strengthening of its monitoring role, including through detention visits
The Committee recommends that the State party take steps to strengthen the National
Advisory Committee for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in order to
bring it fully into line with the Paris Principles and ensure its effective and
independent functioning, including through regular public annual and thematic
human rights reporting, clear and transparent nomination and dismissal procedures
and strengthened participation with and within the international human rights system.
In this regard, it draws the attention of the State party to general comment No. 10 on
the role of national human rights institutions in the protection of economic, social and
cultural rights.
7.
The Committee notes with concern that corruption remains widespread, despite recent
efforts to curb the phenomenon, including the passing of Act No. 06-01 establishing a
national anti-corruption programme (art. 2, para. 1).
The Committee recommends that the State party take immediate steps to establish the
National Anti-Corruption Agency, as foreseen in Act No. 06-01 of 6 February 2006,
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