Algerian MPs for new mechanisms ensuring permanent protection for children

Members of National People’s Assembly (Lower House of Parliament) underlined Wednesday the necessity to combine efforts with all the players in order to define new mechanisms aiming at ensuring a permanent security for children within the society . MPs who intervened during a plenary session dedicated to the examination of a draft penal code called on the implementation of new frameworks of fight against crime under all its forms and for the protection of children against phenomena of abduction, rape and begging or the assassination of children. They also called on punishing all those who try to exploit minors for begging and banning discriminatory practices in the society. In this regard, MP Akila Hachichi of the National Liberation Front (FLN) called on revising some articles of this bill, particularly concerning the application of life-long prison sentence against abductors. Deputy Mohamed Daoudi from El-Karama party said that this bill "follows the increase of aggression cases against minors," specifying that security services recorded during the first ten months of 2013 "more than 7,000 crimes involving minors." For her part, Nouri Zahia of the Green Algeria Alliance (AAV) recommended the introduction of a new article criminalizing violence against women, underlining the importance of searching causes at the origin of abductions of children in order to define solutions.