415.Madagascar ensures that children are not involved in the production and drugs
trafficking.
416.The fight against drugs is managed by the Interministerial Coordination
Commission for the Fight against Drugs (OICLD).
417.The Central Service for the fight against drugs centralizes all information that could
facilitate research and prevention of illicit drug trafficking and coordinates both
nationally and internationally levels, all operations for the repression of trafficking. It
carries out this mission in collaboration with the Narcotics Service of the National
Gendarmerie.
418. Decree No. 2003-164 of 25 February 2003 introduces the policy and strategies in
the fight against drugs and the National Master Plan for the fight against drugs and
related criminal activities.
419.Article 14 of Decree No. 2007-563 of 03 July 2007 on child labour states: "The
recruitment, use, supply and use of children of one or the other sex in the production
and trafficking of drugs is prohibited. "
420. It defines "drug trafficking", as any offer, sale, distribution, brokerage, sale, delivery
on any terms whatsoever, dispatch, shipping, transportation, purchase, possession
or use of drugs.
421.The activities carried out by the Office for Mass and Civic Education (OEMC) of the
MENRS include youth awareness about the dangers related to drug use.
422.Various measures have been adopted and implemented including the organisation
of:
- Awareness campaign in schools and educational institutions by drug central
services;
- Training of Sefo Fokontany in the fight against drugs during the leadership
training in 2007 and population awareness in their constituencies on the
detection of cases of use, cultivation, production or drug trafficking and
reporting to the relevant authorities.
423.Detoxification is provided by the Rehabilitation Centre of Anjanamasina where
addicts receive care and psychological support as well as measures to support
reintegration.
424.In terms of international cooperation, various agreements were signed by
Madagascar to fight against drug use:
- Administrative and Operational Arrangement in the fight against illicit drug
trafficking between Madagascar and the Islamic Republic of the Comoros;
- Cooperation agreement on mutual legal assistance between Madagascar and
France, in particular regarding the extradition of drug traffickers;
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