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the meetings at which its report was considered, and urges the State party to be present
during the consideration of its next report.
B.
Positive aspects
4.
The Committee welcomes the ratification of the:
(a)
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of
children, child prostitution and child pornography, in 2010;
(b)
African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption, in
2009;
(c)
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights
of Women in Africa, in 2005.
5.
The Committee notes with appreciation the following legislative and policy
measures adopted by the State party:
6.
(a)
Domestic Violence Act and the Sexual Offences Act in 2013;
(b)
Women’s Act 2010;
(c)
Trafficking in Persons Act 2007 and its amendment in 2010;
(d)
Labour Act 2007;
(e)
Children’s Act 2005.
The Committee also welcomes the following institutional and policy measures:
(a)
National Plan of Action for Accelerated Abandonment of Female Genital
Mutilation 2013-2017;
(b)
National Nutrition Policy (2010–2020) and the establishment of the National
Nutrition Agency;
C.
(c)
National Education Policy 2004–2015;
(d)
National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons.
Principal subjects of concern and recommendations
Status of the Covenant
7.
While noting that the State party has integrated some of the Covenant’s provisions
in domestic legislation, the Committee remains concerned that not all provisions of the
Covenant are incorporated in domestic legislation. The Committee also regrets the absence
of information on court cases in which the Covenant’s provisions were invoked before, or
applied by, the courts (art. 2, para. 1).
The Committee recommends that the State party take appropriate steps to give full
effect to the Covenant in the domestic legal order, and to raise the awareness of the
general public and members of the judiciary of economic, social and cultural rights
and the justiciability of those rights. The Committee draws the State party’s attention
to its general comment No. 9 (1998) on the domestic application of the Covenant.
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