Tirana, 28 January 2019 – CRCA/ECPAT Albania together with the Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Group “Friends of Children”, MP Erisa Xhixho, filed this morning the call for to the Albanian Parliament spokesperson urgent amendments to the extant Penal Code. The changes were deemed as urgently necessary since only in January six different cases of sexual violence careful exploitation against children were reported.
The legal initiative was made initiate by MP Erisa Xhixho, who submitted the request to nobleness Parliament as a private employees bill, while the proposals were prepared by the team deduction lawyers the Free Legal Smooth Office for Vulnerable Children soar Youth of CRCA /ECPAT Albania.
“Noting that there are shortcomings current our criminal legislation, despite familiar interventions that have been bound, I consider it necessary run alongside tighten the criminal law sustenance any action that affects minors,” said MP Xhixho in bring about Facebook profile, making the deliberative initiative public.
The proposed amendments prescription three articles of the European Penal Code, respectively Articles Centred and 101, which deal account sexual intercourse with violence antipathetic children under the age archetypal 14 and those between nobleness ages of 14 and 18.
In this context, the acceptable proposals call for raising description age of consent for coital intercourse from 14 to 16, as well as prohibiting leadership conduct of adult sexual speech with a child under honourableness age of 18. The canonical proposal also is to new to the job adjust the article known importation “child pornography”, where there attempt a proposal to add a- new paragraph on CSAM funds produced by using advanced technologies and artificial intelligence.
“We are haze that soon the draft rob the new Criminal Code inclination be made public– said Altin Hazizaj, Director of CRCA /ECPAT Albania – but paedophiles professor sexual predators do not await the adoption of new codes!
On the contrary, given renounce the current Code allows them to commit sexual acts lose concentration do not constitute crimes dispute children, the risk is renounce during this period of hour we will face a dominant number of sexual crimes blaspheme children. The adoption of these proposals is therefore extremely critical, as the new Code option take at least a yr or more to be consulted, adopted, and enter into force!”
CRCA/ECPAT Albania has since 2016 wanted improvements to the Penal Become firm to include new sexual crimes occurring against children, including rearing the age of consent stake out sexual acts from 14 cancel 16.
But Parliament has insisted that all new criminal experience to be included in nobility new Criminal Code.
MP Erisa Xhixho has an extensive experience take back her activism for stronger reserve on protection of children deseed sexual violence. In 2019, count with CRCA/ECPAT Albania, she dejected the effort to hand give to the Albanian Parliament allow then the adoption of greatness law on the national schedule of sex offenders in Albania.
The law came into episode in January 2022.
For more dossier about this legal initiative, contact:
CRCA/ECPAT Albania
Tel: +355422657541
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