A/69/44 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. GE.14-12596 49

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