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and migrants. It is further concerned about the lack of progress on the investigation into the
whereabouts of over 500 children, mostly Albanian Roma forced to beg in the streets, who
had been rounded up by the police in Athens prior to the 2004 Olympic Games and had
disappeared from Agia Varvara, a State-run care home. The Committee regrets to learn that,
although the case was reopened twice between 2005 and 2014, it was closed both times due
to lack of evidence (arts. 2 and 16).
51.
The State party should:
(a)
Intensify its efforts to prevent and combat trafficking in human beings,
including by putting in place effective procedures for the identification and referral of
victims among vulnerable groups, such as asylum seekers and migrants, including
unaccompanied minors;
(b)
Enhance efforts to investigate claims of human trafficking, including
past cases of trafficking for the purposes of labour exploitation, prosecute
perpetrators and ensure that victims of trafficking obtain compensation;
(c)
Ensure access to adequate protection and support for all victims of
trafficking, especially secure shelters and counselling services.
Follow-up procedure
52.
The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 9 August 2020,
information on follow-up to the Committee’s recommendations on non-refoulement;
detention of unaccompanied migrant and asylum-seeking children; sexual and
gender-based violence against refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls; and
human rights defenders and humanitarian workers and volunteers (see paras. 17 (c),
23 (b), 25 (d) and 49 (a) above). In that context, the State party is invited to inform the
Committee about its plans for implementing, within the coming reporting period,
some or all of the remaining recommendations in the concluding observations.
Other issues
53.
The State party is requested to disseminate widely the report submitted to the
Committee and the present concluding observations, in appropriate languages,
through official websites, the media and NGOs, and to inform the Committee about its
disseminating activities.
54.
The Committee requests the State party to submit its next periodic report,
which will be its eighth, by 9 August 2023. For that purpose, and in view of the fact
that the State party has agreed to report to the Committee under the simplified
reporting procedure, the Committee will, in due course, transmit to the State party a
list of issues prior to reporting. The State party’s replies to that list of issues will
constitute its eight periodic report under article 19 of the Convention.
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