- Support and follow the CSO programs of action on these issues.
405.The Regional Observatory of Child Labour (ORTE) along with the Regional
Committee for the fight against child labor (CRLTE) hace also been created following
the Ministerial Decree 13520/2007 of 17 August 2007.
406.In 2008, as part of the fight against child labour, the following results were obtained:
- 29 action programs implemented within the framework of ILO-IPEC program;
- 1792 children 22 removed from the worst forms of child labour and benefited
from school rehabilitation and vocational training;
- 120 children receiving remedial education and reintegration into public
primary schools in the proposed framework "Manjary Soa »;
- 90% of 130 children professionally trained in the clothing sector have been
placed;
- 60 60 children from the three centres of Antananarivo, Toamasina and Toliara
reintegrated in schools and 20 children trained in the vocational training
centre of Antananarivo.
407.The 2009-2013 period is being evaluated.
ii.
Drug abuse (article 28)
408.Madagascar is a State Party to the Convention on Transnational Organized Crime
(CTO).).
409.Act No. 97-039 of 4 November 1997 regulates the control of narcotics, psychotropic
substances and precursors in Madagascar.
410.In order to protect children against the illicit use of drugs, production and trafficking
of psychotropic substances, the Act provides for the strengthening of the applicable
penalties in case of child participation in the commission of these offenses, or if the
victim is a minor.
411.The provision of inhaling toxic chemicals to a minor is also prohibited and
punishable by law.
412.With regard to the possession, purchase and illicit cultivation for personal use, the
law provides, however, a penalty exemption for non-recidivist minors.
413.This law prohibits and punishes the illicit use of narcotic and psychotropic
substances mentioned in the relevant international treaties.
414.It also criminalizes and punishes the planting, storage, marketing and consumption
of cannabis.
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