CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE
assign a significantly larger proportion of the budget allocated to the
Department on the Condition of Women and the Family to training and
sensitising the various state players to the concept of gender;
ensure that professional groups involved in judicial and extra-judicial
activities, judges, medical doctors, notaries, clerks of the court, bailiffs,
those responsible for implementing sentences, etc. are systematically
educated and trained in the human and legal rights of women;
promote education on the human rights of women in the curricula of
primary and secondary schools;
take all steps aimed at enabling equal access for women to elected and
non-elected positions, political and administrative positions, as well as
political or associative organisations through the adoption of positive
measures such as quotas, and the amendment of electoral legislation
and legal texts; and
adopt measures promoting equality of opportunity between men and
women in employment.
2. Promote efforts to increase awareness of the human and legal rights of
women adults and children. (Attention: civil society; the media)
3. Encourage the establishment of an environment favourable to women that
achieves a balance between their professional and family lives. (Attention:
private sector; civil society)
Objective 8: Promotion and protection of the rights of children and
the youth
i.
Summary of the CSAR
336.
Basing its findings on general legal provisions (the Constitution, the Code of
Civil Law, the Code of Criminal Law) or on provisions specific to certain
sectors (education, health, communication, etc.), the CSAR notes that Algeria
is implementing policies and measures to protect and promote children and the
youth.
337.
Health, healthcare and wellbeing. On the issue of health, reducing the rate of
mother and infant mortality is a priority of the Algerian government. Several
programmes relating to vaccination and the fight against diarrhoeal diseases,
respiratory infections, morbidity and antenatal mortality, malnutrition, and
acute rheumatoid arthritis have been developed. The infant mortality rate has
been reduced to a fifth of the levels recorded at the end of the 1960s. As far as
employment is concerned, legislative and regulatory measures have been
implemented to prevent the employment of children younger than 16 years.
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