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45. The Committee urges the State party to address effectively sexual and commercial
exploitation, sex tourism and human trafficking and recommends the adoption of an amendment
to the Act against Commercial Sexual Exploitation for that purpose. The Committee further
urges the State party to closely monitor the number of women and children trafficked to, from
and through its territory each year and to provide mandatory training on trafficking for the
police, prosecutors and judges. The State party is requested to include in its next periodic report
updated and disaggregated data on an annual basis on reported trafficking cases, convictions and
sentences imposed on perpetrators, the assistance and rehabilitation programmes provided to
victims.
46. The Committee urges the State party to take preventive measures to address the problem of
the high rate of teenage pregnancies and to provide for exceptions in its law relating to the
general prohibition of abortion in cases where the mother’s life is in danger (medical indication)
or where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
47. The Committee requests the State party to allocate sufficient funds to improving the
infrastructure and to increase the availability of social housing, in line with the Committee’s
General Comment No. 4 (1991) on the right to adequate housing. It also urges the State party to
ensure that the rights of individuals and groups subject to forced evictions are safeguarded and
that adequate alternative housing is provided, in accordance with the Committee’s general
comment No. 7 (1997) on forced evictions, and to include disaggregated data on the number of
forced evictions and arrangements for alternative housing in its next periodic report.
48. The Committee recommends that the State party undertake the measures necessary to
assess the potential adverse impact of its commitments under CAFTA on economic, social and
cultural rights and to ensure that Covenant rights, in particular labour rights, access to health,
social security and generic medicines and the intellectual property regimes are not adversely
affected.
49. The Committee recommends that the provision of health-care facilities, goods and services
in remote and rural areas be improved and that disaggregated annual data in this respect be
provided in its next periodic report.
50. The Committee encourages the State party to continue to improve the effective
implementation of currently existing legislation, policies and programmes to eliminate illiteracy
among indigenous communities.
51. The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to combat secondary
school drop-out rate. The State party should also implement existing programmes to improve the
quality of teaching in secondary schools.
52. The Committee encourages the State party to improve the quality of university teaching
and to ensure that public universities perform as a mechanism for social mobility.
53. The Committee recommends that the State party take all appropriate measures to ensure
the full implementation of the present recommendations, inter alia by transmitting them to the
Council of Ministers and Parliament for appropriate consideration and further action.