ensuring investigations and prosecutions of adults, including Quranic teachers, forcing children to beg for profit or committing other abuses. c. Finalise and pass the draft law establishing legal status and regulations for Daaras or Koranic schools in order to prohibit and punish the participation of marabouts in child abuse and exploitation such as child begging; d. Mandate local inspections of existing Daaras, with a view to ensuring that any failing to meet appropriate health and safety standards or exploiting children through forced begging are shut down; e. Increase funding and support to structures that can provide legal assistance to separated children such as talibés who are victims of abuse or exploitation; f. Dedicate funding to building the capacity of existing children’s shelters and care centers, as well as to installing new shelters or care systems in regions that lack facilities to care for abused or separated children. g. Establish more extensive programming to address the most pressing forms of child labor, including forced begging, commercial sexual exploitation, agriculture, and mining. Abuse and Torture 45. While commending the different measures taken by the government of Senegal to address and eliminate corporal punishment against children, the committee regrets that prohibition of corporeal punishment is still to be achieved in the home, alternative care settings, day care, schools and possibly penal institutions. 46. The Committee specifically concerned that; a. Article 285 of the Family Code provides the right of a person with parental authority to correct a child. While takes note of the fact that Articles 298 and 299 of the Criminal Code 1977 (amended 2016) prohibit and punish the inflicting of injury to a child under 15, the Committee regrets that such provisions of the Criminal Code protect children only from punishment of some severity, which is perceived to cause physical injury; justifying corporal punishment that does not inflict physical injury. 14

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