CRC/C/RWA/CO/3-4 (g) Labour inspectors, operating under the Ministry of Public Service and Labour lack adequate resources to effectively carry out their functions. 61. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Intensify efforts to investigate and prosecute individuals involved in the worst forms of child labour, including by increasing resources for labour inspectors and making information publicly available on investigation and prosecutions of individuals involved in child labour; (b) Take steps to establish a unified mechanism for systematic data collection and analysis on incidences of hazardous child labour and working conditions, disaggregated by age, sex, geographical location, socioeconomic background and type of work as a form of public accountability for protection of the rights of children; (c) Amend existing legislation, including the legislation covering domestic work to ensure that they include both provisions to prohibit child labour as well as provisions to ensure that work performed by workers, who are under the age of 18 and above the minimum age of employment, does not deprive them of compulsory education, or interfere with opportunities to participate in further education or vocational training. In this regard, the Committee recommends that the State party strengthen inter-agency and interministerial collaboration to eliminate child labour; (d) Amend Law No. 13/2009 to ensure that the law covers workers in the informal sector, including in family agricultural or domestic work and not just contractual employment; (e) Identify hazardous domestic and agricultural work carried out by children and prohibit and eliminate such work for children under the age of 18. In this regard, the State party should amend Law No. 54/2011 relating to the rights and the protection of the child to legally prohibit employment of children under 18 in underground mining activities; and (f) Require employers of agricultural and child domestic workers to report all work-related injuries and serious illnesses to labour inspectors at the district level in order to monitor the situation and collect and publish better statistics than are currently available about such incidents; and (g) Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 (2011) concerning decent work for domestic workers. Administration of juvenile justice 62. The Committee notes that the adoption of the law on the rights and the protection of the child (Law No. 54/2011) is an important step in addressing some of the shortcomings of juvenile justice in the State party. However, the Committee regrets that, notwithstanding its previous recommendation (CRC/C/15/Add.234, para. 74, 2004), the State party has not established independent children’s courts. In particular, the Committee expresses concern that: (a) The “special chamber” established for hearing children’s cases operates under an ad hoc arrangement, does not exist at the High Court nor the lower courts, and lacks judges and lawyers specialized in children’s rights and juvenile justice; (b) Children in vulnerable situations, such as children living in street situations and victims of child prostitution continue to be perceived as offenders and to be detained in an unofficial detention centre in Gikondo under poor living conditions and without any charges; and 17

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