A/HRC/25/14 several pieces of national legislation had been enacted while others were in the process of being adopted, such as the Personal and Family Code, the Criminal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Civil Code, the Code of Civil Procedure, the Child Protection Code and the Code of Conduct for Soldiers. 8. The delegation explained that the national report was the result of a multi-agency, participatory process. The report had been drafted by the interministerial committee to monitor the implementation of international human rights instruments (made up of representatives of various ministries, civil society, the National Human Rights Commission and resource persons) and by human rights associations. It had then been adopted by the Government. 9. The delegation noted that the Government, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), had taken a series of actions and measures concerning children in armed conflict. In that regard, the delegation mentioned in particular the plans to train 400 members of the contingents for Mali and the Central African Republic before the end of the year; missions to check the age of soldiers, conducted jointly by the Government and the United Nations, in security and defence zones; a programme for family reunification and the reintegration of children withdrawn from armed forces and armed groups, and the appointment of a focal point in the Ministry of Defence for the implementation of the plan of action. 10. With regard to trafficking in children, the delegation stated that there was no trafficking as such in Chad but that some situations that were tantamount to trafficking were punished if they came to the attention of the government authorities (for example, the Zoé’s Ark case). The delegation also mentioned that an order providing for the establishment of an interministerial technical committee to combat trafficking in persons had been issued on 17 October 2013. The Committee would be responsible, inter alia, for monitoring compliance with obligations in relation to trafficking in persons, proposing amendments to national legislation to bring it into line with international instruments and coordinating the activities of the relevant departments. 11. The delegation also reported that a draft decree regulating child labour was in the process of being adopted to supplement and clarify the provisions on the protection of children contained in the Labour Code. 12. The delegation recalled that the duration of police custody was 48 hours, and that it could be extended to 72 hours by the prosecutor. In order to protect citizens’ rights, the draft Code of Criminal Procedure provided that legal assistance should be available during that period and that pretrial detention was 6 months for ordinary offences and 1 year for serious offences. 13. The delegation noted that press offences had been decriminalized under the Act of 31 November 2010. Freedom of the press was guaranteed by a number of legal and institutional mechanisms introduced by the Government. Journalists were, however, expected to practise their profession without inciting citizens to hatred or violence. 14. With regard to women, the delegation noted that the Government had taken a number of actions to strengthen the protection of women’s rights. For example, a national gender policy and a national strategy to combat gender-based violence had been approved. The delegation also reported that the Government had established penalties for the perpetrators of violence against women in articles 325 ff. of the draft Criminal Code. Penalties for the perpetrators of female genital mutilation had also been provided for in that draft. It was specified, however, that female genital mutilation was practised by only a few ethnic groups in Chad, and that the Government had wished to introduce penalties in its national legislation in order to comply with its international obligations. The delegation also mentioned a number of measures taken for women, including a national campaign to 4 GE.14-10021