CRC/C/DZA/CO/3-4
(c)
To ensure immediate removal of children from adult detention facilities
and place them in a safe, child-sensitive environment where they are treated
humanely and with respect for their inherent dignity, and can maintain regular
contact with their families, and are provided with education and vocational training;
(d)
To ensure capacity-building and specialization of all the justice actors,
including judges, prison officers and lawyers, on the provisions of the Convention;
(e)
To develop social reintegration programmes for children in conflict with
the law; and
(f)
To make use, if relevant, of the technical assistance tools developed by
the United Nations Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice and its members, including
the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), UNICEF, the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and NGOs, and to
seek technical assistance in the area of juvenile justice from members of the Panel.
Child victims and witnesses of crimes
83.
The Committee also recommends that the State party ensure, through adequate
legal provisions and regulations, that all children who are victims and/or witnesses of
crimes, e.g. children victims of abuse, domestic violence, sexual and economic
exploitation, abduction, and trafficking and witnesses of such crimes, 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 (annexed to Economic and Social Council resolution 2005/20).
H.
Ratification of international human rights instruments
84.
The Committee recommends that the State party, in order to further
strengthen the fulfilment of children's rights, ratify the Optional Protocol to the
Convention on a communications procedure, the International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance as well as the Optional
Protocols to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention against
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
85.
The Committee also urges the State party to fulfil its reporting obligations
under the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography and to the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed
conflict, the reports of which are both overdue, since 27 January 2009 and 9 June
2011 respectively.
I.
Cooperation with regional and international bodies
86.
The Committee recommends that the State party cooperate with the African
Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of Children of the African Union
towards the implementation of the Convention and other human rights instruments,
both in the State party and in other African Union member States.
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