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defined as a specific crime in the Criminal Law and that marital rape is not recognized as a
separate criminal offence. It is also concerned at the absence of protection measures, such
as restraining orders, against perpetrators of domestic violence and physical abuse, at the
inadequate support from the State party in the running of shelters specifically for abused
women and the fact that psychosocial and legal rehabilitation services are provided mainly
by non-governmental organizations (arts. 2, 12, 13, 14 and 16).
The State party should:
(a)
Adopt comprehensive legislation on violence against women that would
establish domestic violence and marital rape as specific offences in the Criminal Law;
(b)
Ensure that all reports of domestic violence, including sexual violence
and violence against children, are registered by the police, that all such incidences of
violence are promptly, impartially and effectively investigated and perpetrators
prosecuted and, if found guilty, punished in accordance with the gravity of their acts;
(c)
Sensitize and train law enforcement personnel in investigating and
prosecuting cases of domestic violence;
(d)
Ensure that victims of domestic, including sexual, violence benefit from
protection, including restraining orders for the perpetrators, and have access to
medical and legal services, including psychosocial counselling, to reparation, including
rehabilitation, and to safe and adequately funded shelters specifically for abused
women, which the State directly runs and supports.
Trafficking in human beings
(15) While welcoming the bilateral agreements on cooperation against trafficking in
persons that the State party has concluded with 20 countries and the adoption of the State
programme for the prevention of human trafficking, the Committee is concerned that the
State party remains a country of origin for human trafficking for purposes of sexual and
labour exploitation (arts. 2, 10, 12, 13 and 16).
The State party should:
(a)
Take effective measures to prevent human trafficking, such as vigorously
enforcing anti-trafficking legislation and enhancing international cooperation, as well
as intensifying action against marriages of convenience that may result in human
trafficking;
(b)
Promptly, effectively and impartially investigate, prosecute and punish
trafficking in persons and related practices;
(c)
Increase the protection of and provide redress to victims of trafficking,
including legal, medical and psychological aid and rehabilitation, including the
introduction of specific rehabilitation services for victims of trafficking, adequate
shelters and assistance in reporting incidents of trafficking to the police;
(d)
Enhance specialized training for the police, prosecutors and judges,
migration officers and border police, including on the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress
and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing
the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, on effective
prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of acts of trafficking and
conduct nationwide awareness-raising campaigns, including through the media, about
the criminal nature of such acts.
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