E/C.12/CRI/CO/4 page 6 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.

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