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preserve confidentiality between doctors and patients when medical care is provided
for complications arising from an abortion.
Trafficking in persons
(23) The Committee recognizes the efforts made by the State party to address trafficking
in persons, including the creation of the Inter-Agency Committee to Prevent and Combat
Human Trafficking and special units in the National Secretariat for Children and
Adolescents and the Secretariat for Women, the establishment of a centre to provide
comprehensive support for trafficking victims and the drafting of a bill to combat
trafficking in persons. The Committee notes with interest the opening of a temporary
shelter for trafficking victims, but observes that the shelter has limited space and only
receives female victims. The Committee is concerned that Paraguay continues to be both a
source and transit country for human trafficking and regrets the lack of comprehensive
information on trafficking cases and convictions (arts. 2, 10 and 16).
The State party should ensure that all allegations concerning the trafficking of
persons are investigated promptly, impartially and thoroughly and that the offenders
are prosecuted and punished for the crime of trafficking in persons. The State party
should continue to conduct nationwide awareness-raising campaigns, provide
adequate programmes of assistance, recovery and reintegration for victims of
trafficking and offer training to law enforcement officers, judges, prosecutors,
migration officials and border police on the causes, consequences and repercussions of
trafficking and other forms of exploitation. In particular, the State party should make
every effort to implement the National Plan for the Prevention and Elimination of the
Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents and ensure it is allocated the
necessary human and financial resources. The Committee further recommends that
the State party increase its efforts to establish systems and mechanisms of
international, regional and bilateral cooperation with countries of origin, transit and
destination in order to prevent, investigate and punish cases of human trafficking.
Training and the implementation of the Istanbul Protocol
(24) The Committee takes note of the information in the report of the State party on
training schemes for the Armed Forces, prosecutors and members of the national police but
regrets that so little information is available on the evaluation of those schemes and their
effectiveness in reducing the incidence of torture and ill-treatment. In particular, the
Committee regrets the lack of information on the training provided on the Manual on
Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the Istanbul Protocol) to personnel involved in the
investigation and identification of torture and ill-treatment (art. 10).
The State party should:
(a)
Continue to provide training programmes so as to ensure that all public
servants, in particular police and other law enforcement officers, are fully aware of
the provisions of the Convention;
(b)
Assess the effectiveness and impact of training schemes and education on
the incidence of torture and ill-treatment;
(c)
Establish a training plan for all personnel involved in the investigation
and identification of torture, including public defenders, doctors and psychologists, so
that the contents of the Istanbul Protocol are known and applied in practice.
Redress, including compensation and rehabilitation
(25) The Committee takes note of the information provided in the report of the State
party on the financial compensation awarded to victims of human rights violations,
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