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(b)
Ensure the effective implementation of the national action plan for the
prevention and elimination of violence against women for 2014-2019 and regularly
assess its results;
(c)
Ensure the effective functioning of the free 24-hour State-funded
helpline for women who are experiencing violence;
(d)
Establish an effective and independent complaints mechanism for
victims of domestic violence;
(e)
Ensure that all allegations of domestic violence, including sexual violence
and violence against children, are registered by the police and that all allegations of
domestic violence are promptly, impartially and effectively investigated and the
perpetrators prosecuted and punished;
(f)
Ensure that victims of domestic violence benefit from protection,
including restraining orders, and have access to medical and legal services, including
counselling, safe and adequately funded shelters, and redress, including rehabilitation.
Trafficking in human beings
15.
While welcoming the amendments to legislation modifying the definition of human
trafficking to include new forms of punishable conduct, the Committee is concerned that
the State party remains a country of origin, transit and destination for human trafficking, in
particular for labour and sexual exploitation and forced begging. The Committee is also
concerned at the very lenient or suspended sentences given to perpetrators of trafficking in
human beings (arts. 2, 10, 12-14 and 16).
The State party should:
(a)
Vigorously implement international and domestic legislation aimed at
countering trafficking, allocate sufficient funds to combat trafficking and conduct
national prevention campaigns on the criminal nature of such acts;
(b)
Take effective measures to prevent and eradicate human trafficking,
including by providing specialized training to public officials on identifying victims
and on investigating, prosecuting and sanctioning perpetrators;
(c)
Ensure the effective implementation of the national programme to fight
human trafficking for 2015-2018 and the round-the-clock functioning of the national
hotline for the protection of human trafficking victims;
(d)
Promptly, effectively and impartially investigate the crime of trafficking
in persons and related practices, and prosecute and punish perpetrators in accordance
with the gravity of the crime;
(e)
Increase the protection of and provide redress to victims of trafficking,
including legal, medical and psychological aid and rehabilitation, as well as adequate
shelter and assistance in reporting incidents of trafficking to the police;
(f)
Enhance international cooperation with regard to preventing and
punishing trafficking, and prevent the return of trafficked persons to their countries
of origin if there are substantial grounds to believe that they would be in danger of
torture;
(g)
Provide the Committee with comprehensive disaggregated data on the
number of investigations, prosecutions and sentences handed down with regard to
perpetrators of human trafficking, and on the provision of effective redress to victims.
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