CHAPTER THREE: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE 341. Stakeholders have stressed the need to develop the function of the childminder to enable those children who cannot return to their original family or be placed in the Kafala, to leave the institution. In addition, it has been recommended that structures be created specifically for children who are both abandoned and disabled. 342. A draft bill aimed specifically at promoting the protection of the child was the subject of investigation by the Cabinet. The project aims to prevent all child abuse, economic exploitation of children, their exposure to begging and the invasion of their privacy. A national strategy for combating violence against children was formulated in collaboration with the various ministries, bodies and associations concerned. 343. Right to research and receive information aimed at promoting children’s spiritual, physical and mental wellbeing. This is of particular relevance in the contexts of family, school and youth establishments, as well as across various other support structures, among which the following are worthy of mention: local public libraries, public and private reference libraries, the range of national television programmes devoted to youth issues, satellite access to various foreign television channels, and so forth. The current programme of providing one computer per household is also involved in the effort to make this objective a reality. A national network for informing and communicating with the youth was established in 1989 and stimulated in 2005 by the establishment of a central structure linked to 48 wilaya centres and a multitude of youth information points in youth establishments. This network is also helping to fulfil this requirement. 344. The youth. In addition to the mechanism for protecting and promoting human rights presented in the various sections of this report, Algeria has implemented a sectoral youth policy. A new national youth policy was defined and adopted in July 2003. Priority attention has also been given to the promotion of youth employment. The mechanism set up for this a decade ago has yielded some encouraging results. (See Chapter Six on socio-economic development in this report.) 345. The objectives of the sectoral youth policy include the following: participation in the national recovery effort by combating all forms of degradation of social values and participation in the development of civic culture; restoration of the confidence of the youth in their own ability and in the state and its institutions; involvement of the youth in the consolidation of society to instil in them a culture of solidarity, tolerance and peace; participation of the youth in the design of socio-educational and cultural activity programmes to prevent inactivity, a factor recognised in the development of social ills; encouraging the youth to expose themselves to the global world through communication, information research and participation in science and technology. 346. The main intervention priorities of the policy are intersectoral coordination; enabling participation of the youth through developing youth associations; implementing general physical education and sport, particularly in the 114