CAT/C/CPV/CO/1 43. The State party should take practical steps to put an end to corporal punishment and promote non-violent forms of discipline through awareness-raising and public education measures. Child labour and trafficking 44. The Committee is concerned at the large number of children exploited in prostitution and engaged in begging, drug dealing or street vending, which make them vulnerable to human trafficking. The Committee is also concerned that the recently amended Criminal Code does not punish persons who promote the conditions for prostitution of children between ages 16 and 18. The Committee regrets the lack of official data on human trafficking, owing to the absence of a State party report, that could be used to evaluate the situation in this respect (arts. 2, 12 and 16). 45. The State party should increase its efforts to prevent and combat trafficking in human beings, especially of children, and the worst forms of child labour, by: (a) Amending the Criminal Code to prohibit the promotion of prostitution of children between 16 and 18 years of age; (b) Conducting prompt, impartial and effective investigations into cases of trafficking, including child sex trafficking, ensuring that convicted individuals are given sentences commensurate with the serious nature of their crimes and guaranteeing that all victims of such acts obtain redress. The State party should provide the Committee with information on the number of complaints or reports of human trafficking and forced labour, the number of those complaints or reports that have been investigated, the number of prosecutions and convictions and the reparations provided to the victims; (c) Providing protection for victims and ensuring adequate access to medical, social, housing and legal services; (d) Providing specialized training to law enforcement and judicial officials on the investigation of trafficking and on victim identification procedures. Follow-up procedure 46. The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 7 December 2017, information on follow-up to the Committee’s recommendations on fundamental legal safeguards, police brutality and the independence of the National Commission for Human Rights and Citizenship (see paras. 17, 21 and 27 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 47. The Committee encourages the State party to consider making the declaration under article 22 of the Convention recognizing the competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications from individuals subject to its jurisdiction, as accepted by the State party in the context of the universal periodic review (see A/HRC/24/5, para. 115.12). 48. The Committee invites the State party to consider ratifying the core United Nations human rights instruments to which it is not yet party. 12