CRC/C/ALB/CO/2-4
(a)
Roma and Egyptian minority children are overrepresented among children
victims of trafficking;
(b)
The involvement of police and Government officials in trafficking cases and
the corruption within the judiciary hamper the overall anti-trafficking law enforcement;
(c)
Efficient mechanisms to protect witnesses and victims of trafficking have not
been set up; and
(d)
The State does not financially support NGOs providing trafficking victims
with shelter, care and assistance.
83.
The Committee urges the State party to take vigorous measures to end the
trafficking of children within the State party and abroad. To this aim, the Committee
urges the State party to:
(a)
Ensure that the National Action Plan for the Combat against Trafficking
of Children and for the Protection of Children Victims of Trafficking (2011–2013)
addresses prevention measures targeting, in particular, children from Roma and
Egyptian minorities;
(b)
Take active measures to bring to justice police and Government officials
involved in trafficking cases;
(c)
Establish a mechanism to protect victims and witnesses of trafficking;
(d)
Provide child victims of trafficking with shelter, psychosocial support
and assistance for reintegration and consider supporting civil society organizations
which already do so; and
(e)
Ensure that thorough investigations and robust prosecutions of persons
committing these offences are carried out and that sufficiently effective and dissuasive
sanctions are imposed in practice as recommended by the ILO Committee of Experts
on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (Observation on ILO
Convention No. 182 (1999) concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the
Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 2010).
Administration of juvenile justice
84.
While noting the information provided by the State party during the dialogue of the
current reform of the juvenile justice system, the Committee reiterates its concern
(CRC/C/15/Add.249, para. 76, 2005) about the lack of an effective juvenile justice system
in the State party. The Committee expresses particular concern about:
(a)
Cases of children being held 48 hours in police stations, interrogated in
inappropriate rooms, without the assistance of a lawyer, subjected to ill-treatment from the
police and their inmates and detained in cells together with adults;
(b)
The continued use of pretrial detention of children who might spend months
in detention without access to education, psychological support and reintegration measures
and the fact that 70 per cent of convicted juveniles will have spent their sentence in
detention while awaiting their trial;
(c)
The limited development of alternatives to detention;
(d)
The degraded infrastructure and unsanitary conditions in some pretrial
detention centres for juveniles;
(e)
Limited access to medical and mental health services in detention;
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