- - - - the organization of training sessions for administrative, traditional and religious authorities as well as those of children’s parliament, characterised by the dissemination of national and international legal instruments on the fight against discriminations, sexual abuses and trafficking in children; the realization of studies on violence and the sexual exploitation of children to better decipher the contours of the phenomenon; the organization by the NCHRF of public hearings on sexual abuses on minors in order to trigger exemplary repression against the perpetrators of such abuses; the organization of sessions of pre-marital, matrimonial and family education targeting close to 100 000 families paying particular attention to the appropriation of children’s rights by the families; the implementation of a psycho-social support programme intended for children who are victims of sexual abuses in the North West Region, with close to 3 000 girls and boys targeted; the socio-professional training of the victims in Centres for the Empowerment of Women and the Girl Child and their reintegration in view of their empowerment (10 393 young girls trained from 2012 to 2014). Actions undertaken in the area of violence against children enabled a better appropriation by the various stakeholders involved in the protection of the rights of the child. However, these measures were hampered by a number of stumbling blocks, including: - socio-cultural constraints; - insufficient financial and material resources; - the silence of victims and families; - the poor reporting of perpetrators; - difficulties in the production of evidence. Measures earmarked to overcome these difficulties concern: - facilitating the setting up of vigilance committees in target councils, training members of these Committees in the identification, listening, orientation and monitoring of children who are victims; - identifying and assessing existing structures in charge of assisting children who are victims of sexual violence; - building the capacities of social stakeholders as regards the referencing of victims. d) Drug Abuse (Art. 28) As concerns drug abuse, it was recommended to the Government to take all appropriate measures to protect the child from the use of narcotics and the illicit use of psychotropic substances, and to prevent the use of children in the production and trafficking of such substances. As part of the implementation of these measures, repression services in Cameroon carried out as many as 89 operations since 2011 to seize narcotics in urban areas, with more than six tons of cannabis, 159 Kg of cocaine seized in airports and 2 Kg of heroin in a hotel in Douala. Actions undertaken in the area of drug abuse enabled a better appropriation by the various stakeholders involved in the children’s rights protection chain. However, these 39