CRC/C/ALB/CO/2-4
(a)
Strengthen the labour inspectorate and provide labour inspectors with
all the necessary support, including child labour expertise, with a view to enabling
them to monitor effectively, at the State and local levels, the implementation of labour
law standards;
(b)
Ensure that the Gërdec incident is thoroughly investigated and those
responsible effectively prosecuted;
(c)
Continue to seek technical assistance from the International Programme
on the Elimination of Child Labour of the International Labour Office (ILO) in this
regard; and
(d)
Consider ratifying the ILO Convention No. 189 (2011) concerning decent
work for domestic workers.
Children in street situations
80.
The Committee reiterates its deepest concern about the high number of children
living and working on the streets and that insufficient measures have been taken to address
the situation of these children, who are subjected to the worst forms of exploitation,
including begging in the street, extreme marginalization and homelessness, and are at risk
of becoming victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation. Furthermore, the Committee is
concerned that children in street situations might be treated as offenders.
81.
The Committee, in the light of its previous recommendation
(CRC/C/15/Add.249, para. 73, 2005) urges the State party, in collaboration with
NGOs and with the participation of children, to:
(a)
Strengthen the measures to protect and assist children from living in
street situations and remove them from those situations, and ensure their access to
education and health services by taking into account the views of these children;
(b)
Strengthen the support and assistance available to families, both as a
preventive measure and a measure conducive to the return of children to their
families, as appropriate;
(c)
Set up programmes and reporting mechanisms providing children in
street situations with relevant information in order to prevent them from becoming
victims of trafficking and economic and sexual exploitation, and assist and advise
them;
(d)
Ensure that persons using children for worst forms of exploitations are
prosecuted and sanctioned; and
(e)
offenders.
Ensure that children in street situations are not considered or treated as
Sale, trafficking and abduction
82.
The Committee welcomes the various measures undertaken in order to combat
trafficking of children, including the adoption of the National Action Plan for the Combat
against Trafficking of Children and for the Protection of Children Victims of Trafficking
(2011–2013), the incorporation in the curricula of high schools of awareness-raising
programmes about the danger of being trafficked and the establishment of a database for
the victims of trafficking. However, the Committee is seriously concerned that the State
party continues to be a source country for children subjected to sex trafficking and forced
labour, including forced begging within the State party and abroad. The Committee is
further concerned that:
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