CRC/C/DZA/CO/3-4 (a) To revise article 336 of the Penal Code and define the crime of rape as sexual intercourse without consent; (b) To develop adequate systems of investigation of cases of sexual exploitation and of recovery for the victims; (c) To prosecute and sanction all perpetrators of sexual violence and exploitation, including teachers and ensure that judges and law-enforcement authorities take all appropriate measures to bring the perpetrators to justice and provide them with sentences commensurate to their crime; (d) To take active measures to combat sexual violence and harassment in schools by organizing nationwide communications programmes and strengthen the recruitment of female teachers who provide valuable role models for young girls and reduce the probability of abuse by teachers; (e) To encourage school and health services to detect and report evidence of abuse and establish clear reporting systems for cases of violence in schools; and (f) To undertake awareness-raising programs, including campaigns, particularly for children, parents and other caregivers in order to prevent stigmatization of children victims of sexual exploitation and abuse; and (g) To ensure that programmes and policies for the prevention, recovery and reintegration of child victims are in accordance with the outcome documents adopted at the 1996, 2001 and 2008 World Congresses against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in Stockholm, Yokohama and Rio de Janiero. Sale, trafficking and abduction 77. The Committee welcomes Act No. 09-01 of 25 February 2009 which criminalizes trafficking in persons and increases penalties for offenders who traffic children. The Committee is however concerned that limited measures have been taken to enforce the new anti-trafficking law and that the State party continues to consider trafficking victims including children as illegal migrants and to deport them, sometimes in conditions that threaten their lives. The Committee is particularly concerned that: (a) There has been no investigation or prosecution for trafficking offences, or conviction or punishment of trafficking offenders during the year 2010 and that some traffickers reportedly benefit from the complicity of some members the Algerian police; (b) Child victims of trafficking may be jailed for unlawful acts committed as a result of their being trafficked, such as engaging in prostitution or lacking adequate immigration documentation; (c) There are no Government-operated shelters for victims of trafficking and civil society is prohibited from operating any such shelters because they would be penalized for harbouring undocumented migrants; (d) The State party does not provide children with assistance for their physical and psychological recovery and their social reintegration; and (e) Legal alternatives to removal to countries where victims may face retribution or hardship are not provided by the State party. 78. The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures for the implementation of its anti-trafficking law and in particular: (a) To effectively investigate trafficking cases and ensure that perpetrators and their accomplices are brought to justice; 19

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