recommends the government of Senegal to increase the accessibility of confidential and youth friendly health services, improve the accessibility of contraceptive services and promote sexual and reproductive health education targeted at adolescents, with a view to prevent early pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. 40. Further, the Committee is alarmed by the low rate of exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months and recommends that the state party strengthen its awareness-raising efforts on the importance of exclusive breastfeeding of children up to the age of 6 months to ensure a child's survival, healthy growth and development. H. Protection of the Child against child labor Child labor and exploitation 41. The committee notes with appreciation that the state party has laws and policies against child labor and exploitation. However, the committee remained concerned that children in Senegal continue to engage in child labor in agriculture and in the worst forms of child labor in forced begging. 42. While arrests and prosecutions of Quranic teachers for child abuse, exploitation, and forced child begging have increased slightly in recent years, the committee notes with concern that the justice institutions, such as the police, and prosecutorial offices, often still fail to investigate and prosecute allegations of such abuses, and charges and prosecutions against marabouts continued to be dropped or sentences mitigated by the judiciary. Further, while welcoming the state party’s several projects to improve the lives of children attending the Koranic schools, the Committee is concerned about the slow progress in finalising and adopting the law establishing legal status and regulations for daaras or Koranic schools. 43. The committee, while appreciating the state party program to remove children from the streets, remains concerned that many of these children were later returned to the same Quranic teachers who had forced them to beg. 44. The committee thus recommends the state party to: a. Increase enforcement of existing legislations that criminalize child trafficking, forced begging and abuse, and investigate and hold accountable marabouts who transgress these laws; b. Formally engage relevant sectors of the Ministry of Justice in the government program to remove children from the street aimed at 13