CRC/C/SAU/CO/2 page 15 Sexual exploitation and trafficking 71. While noting that the domestic legislation prohibits the sale and trafficking of children and includes measures to protect children from all other forms of exploitation, abduction and abuse, the Committee is concerned about the growing phenomenon of trafficking in children in the region, including reports of child trafficking during pilgrimages, and children crossing the border from Yemen. 72. In order to prevent and combat trafficking in children for sexual and other exploitative purposes, such as forced begging, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Review its domestic legislation in order to enact a comprehensive anti-trafficking law and strengthen its efforts to investigate sexual exploitation and trafficking cases and ensure that perpetrators are prosecuted and child victims of sexual abuse and trafficking are granted the legal status of victims; (b) Conduct research and provide comprehensive statistical data on the extent, nature and changing patterns of sexual exploitation and trafficking in children in Saudi Arabia; (c) Develop and adopt a comprehensive multidisciplinary national plan of action to prevent and combat sexual exploitation of and trafficking in children; (d) Strengthen its bilateral and multilateral cooperation with countries of origin and transit in order to take more efficient measures against trafficking in children; (e) Raise public awareness about the risks of child trafficking and train professionals working with and for children, as well as the general public, to counter trafficking in children; (f) Strengthen its efforts to provide adequate assistance and social reintegration services for sexually exploited and/or trafficked children in accordance with the Declaration and Agenda for Action and the Global Commitment adopted at the 1996 and 2001 World Congresses against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. Administration of juvenile justice 73. The Committee is encouraged by the State party’s efforts to reform its juvenile justice system, inter alia, through adoption of the new Code of Criminal Procedure and Practice for Lawyers in 2001. The Committee takes note of the State party’s intention to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility but is deeply concerned that it is still 7 years. It notes with appreciation that the State party has established special juvenile courts and that persons under 18 years of age are held in separate detention facilities and that they are entitled to be represented by a lawyer. As noted in paragraph 32, the Committee is deeply concerned about reports that persons are sentenced to death for crimes committed while under the age of 18, and at the fact that capital and corporal punishment can be imposed on persons having committed a crime when under 18 years of age at the discretion of the judge.