CAT/C/POL/CO/5-6 Abortion 23. The Committee is concerned about restrictions on access to abortion, especially for victims of rape, due to the refusal of some physicians and clinics to perform legal operations on the basis of conscientious objection. This leads women to resort to clandestine, often unsafe abortions with all the health risks they entail (arts. 2 and 16). The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that women, especially victims of rape, who voluntarily decide to terminate their pregnancy have access to safe, legal abortions. In accordance with the 2012 World Health Organization technical and policy guidance on safe abortion, the State party should ensure that the exercise of conscientious objection does not prevent individuals from accessing services to which they are legally entitled. The State party should also implement a legal and/or policy framework that enables women to access abortion where the medical procedure is permitted under the law. Trafficking in human beings 24. While welcoming the amendments to the Penal Code introducing a definition of trafficking in human beings and several policy measures in the area, the Committee is concerned at reports that the State party remains a source, transit and destination country for human trafficking, especially for the purpose of forced labour (arts. 2, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 16). The Committee recommends that the State party fully implement the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and take measures to: (a) Enforce domestic anti-trafficking laws and policies, take effective measures to prevent human trafficking and increase protection for victims of trafficking; (b) Promptly, effectively and impartially investigate, prosecute and punish the crime of trafficking in persons and related practices; (c) Provide 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) Prevent the return of trafficked persons to their countries of origin where there are substantial grounds to believe that they would be in danger of torture; and (e) Enhance international cooperation with regard to preventing and punishing trafficking. Vulnerable groups 25. The Committee notes the adoption of the Equal Treatment Act in 2010 and the provisions of the Penal Code prohibiting hate crimes (arts. 119, 256 and 257), but considers that neither the Act nor the Penal Code provide adequate and specific protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation, disability or age. It is concerned at the prevalence of racial violence and other acts of racial abuse targeting persons of Arab, Asian and African origin, and manifestations of anti-Semitism. It is also concerned at the significant rise in manifestations of hate speech and intolerance directed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and the persistent discrimination against members of the Roma community (arts. 2, 11 and 16). The Committee recommends that the State party incorporate offences in its Penal Code to ensure that hate crimes and acts of discrimination and violence that target persons on the basis of their sexual orientation, disability or age are punished 8