CRC/C/DZA/CO/3-4
(b)
To train law-enforcement officials and establish capacity to identify
victims of trafficking among illegal migrants;
(c)
To ensure that child victims of trafficking are offered necessary
assistance, including legal aid, shelter, medical and psychological assistance and
rehabilitation services and are not punished for unlawful acts committed as a direct
result of being trafficked; and
(d)
To undertake a campaign to increase public awareness of trafficking,
including on the differences between human smuggling and trafficking.
Helpline
79.
The Committee notes the existence of a helpline for children managed by a network
of civil society organizations. The Committee is however concerned that limited support
has been provided by the State party for an effective functioning of such a helpline.
80.
The Committee urges the State party to provide financial and technical support
to this helpline in order to maintain it and ensure that it provides 24-hour services
throughout the State party. The Committee also urges the State party to promote
awareness on how children can access the helpline.
Administration of juvenile justice
81.
The Committee notes as positive the measures taken by the State party to improve
its juvenile justice system, in particular the training organized for juvenile judges on the
right of the child. The Committee is however concerned that:
(a)
The State party’s juvenile justice system remains mostly punitive as reflected
notably by the possibility of sentencing a child as young as 13 years old to prison from 10
to 20 years;
(b)
Children are subjected to long periods of pretrial detention;
(c)
The use of restorative measures (mediation, community services orders, and
other alternatives to detention) is rare and that detention is in most of the cases the first
option; and
(d)
Children aged 16 may be detained in the context of counter-terrorism efforts
and that children detained are not always separated from adults as observed by the
Committee against Torture (CAT/C/DZA/CO/3, para. 7).
82.
The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to build
a system of restorative and rehabilitative juvenile justice fully in line with the
Convention, in particular articles 37, 39 and 40, and with other relevant standards,
including the Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice
(the Beijing Rules), the Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (the
Riyadh Guidelines), the Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their
Liberty (the Havana Rules), the Vienna Guidelines for Action on Children in the
Criminal Justice System; and the Committee’s general comment No. 10 (2007) on the
rights of the child in juvenile justice (CRC/C/GC/10). In particular, the Committee
urges the State party:
(a)
To ensure that detention, including pre-trial detention is used as a
measure of last resort and for the shortest possible period of time, even in case of very
severe crimes and that it is reviewed on a regular basis with a view to withdrawing it;
(b)
To promote alternative measures to detention, such as diversion,
probation, counseling, community service or suspended sentences, wherever possible;
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