A/HRC/41/2 understand the need to ban corporal punishment. Pending the results of these awarenessraising actions, the Government decided to take note of the related recommendations. 711. In relation with recommendation 119.12 concerning trafficking in persons, and forced child labour, the delegation referred to the situation of domestic employees, stating that the Government condemned such practices, even if sometimes these placements allowed children of modest origins to succeed in studies that they would never have considered if they had remained in their family. Concerning children selling peanuts and candies in the street, they worked for their parents and thus contributed to lighten the load of their very precarious families. In rural areas, children participated in farm work, for the same reasons, and the Government was not aware of children engaged in remunerated work outside the family. Nevertheless, the Comoros remained vigilant, and intended to ban forced labour it in all its forms. However, the Government considered that the manner to end these practices was through combating extreme poverty. 712. In 2015, the Government enacted a law against trafficking in persons. The new Penal Code was awaiting its promulgation. Its Chapter XVI enshrined transnational organized crime offenses, including trafficking in persons. Moreover, Parliament had passed the law authorizing the President of the Comoros to ratify the Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. Thus, the Comoros accepted the recommendation 119.12. 713. With respect to recommendation 119.14, on early marriages and genital mutilation, the Family Code, which expressly banned early marriage, was adopted. While it established the possibility of betrothal before the age of 18, article 14 provided that men and women before eighteen years cannot contract marriage. Nevertheless, according to article 15, the competent judge may grant age exemptions for serious and legitimate reasons when there is mutual consent of the future spouses. As a result, the Comoros accepted recommendation 119.14. In addition, female genital mutilation was not practiced in the Comoros. 714. As a conclusion, all the recommendations received had thus been studied with great attention by the authorities. The exercise had allowed the Comoros to reconsider its positions with respect to certain human rights and to accept some others of the recommendations received. The Comoros was willing to continue the dialogue. 2. Views expressed by Member and observer States of the Council on the outcome of the review 715. During the adoption of the outcome of the review of Comoros, 12 delegations made statements.** 716. Djibouti congratulated the Comoros on the acceptance of almost all the recommendations received in its third universal periodic review and welcomed the acceptance by the Comoros of the two recommendations it had made. It wished the Comoros every success in implementing the accepted recommendations, and recommended to the Council the adoption of the report on the third cycle of the universal periodic review on the Comoros. ** The statements of the delegations that were unable to deliver them owing to time constraints which were made available are posted on the extranet of the Human Rights Council, at https://extranet.ohchr.org/sites/hrc/HRCSessions/RegularSessions/41Session/Pages/default.aspx 114