CAT/C/LVA/CO/6 petition the authorities for protection measures, including restraining orders and legal separation; (b) Ensure that all victims of gender-based violence, including domestic violence, have access to medical and legal services, including counselling, redress and rehabilitation, and provide State-funded social rehabilitation services, shelters and crisis centres; (c) Monitor the effectiveness of complaints mechanisms, including the tollfree helpline, operated by the Legal Aid Administration with the help of the “Skalbes” association for victims of crime, including victims of violence and their families; (d) Provide mandatory training for police and other law enforcement officials, prosecutors, judges and social and medical workers on how to identify and effectively protect victims of gender-based violence and domestic violence; and compile statistical data, disaggregated by gender, age and ethnicity of the victims and their relationship to the perpetrator, on domestic, sexual and other forms of violence against women, including marital rape, and on the number of complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions of perpetrators and sentences handed down. Trafficking in human beings 28. While noting that articles 1541 and 1651 of the Criminal Law provide for criminal liability for trafficking in human beings, the Committee is concerned that the State party remains the country of origin of victims of trafficking, for sexual and labour exploitation (arts. 2, 12, 13, 14 and 16). 29. The State party should: (a) Vigorously implement the relevant international and domestic legislation, allocate sufficient funds to combat trafficking and conduct national prevention and awareness-raising campaigns about the criminal nature of such acts; (b) Take effective measures to prevent and eradicate human trafficking, including by providing specialized statutory training to public officials, such as law enforcement officers and other first respondents, on identifying victims and on investigating, prosecuting and sanctioning perpetrators; (c) Ensure the effective implementation of the guidelines for the prevention of trafficking in human beings for 2014–2020; increase the protection of and provide effective redress to victims of trafficking, including legal, medical and psychological aid and rehabilitation, as well as adequate shelters and assistance in reporting incidents of trafficking to the police; (d) Promptly, effectively and impartially investigate the crime of trafficking in persons and related practices; prosecute and punish perpetrators in accordance with the gravity of the crime; and provide the Committee with comprehensive and disaggregated data on the number of investigations, prosecutions and sentences handed down to perpetrators of such trafficking, and in particular the specific sentences handed down during the period under review to perpetrators under articles 1541 and 1651 of the Criminal Law. Situation of asylum seekers and non-citizens 30. While noting the adoption in 2015 of the new Asylum Law, the Committee is concerned that asylum seekers continue to be detained, that they may not have access to information about the asylum procedure and that they do not enjoy adequate procedural safeguards, in particular at border crossings. It is also concerned about the absence of free legal aid to enable asylum seekers to appeal refusal of entry or refusal of registration as an asylum seeker, an appeal that must be lodged within 48 hours. In addition, the Committee is concerned that children born to non-citizen parents are not automatically granted Latvian citizenship (arts. 2, 3, 11 and 16). 10

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