5. The Committee welcomes the State party’s efforts to directly or indirectly implement economic, social and cultural rights within the domestic legal order, which have included the:
(a) Adoption of the Law on Gender Equality, in 2008; the Law on Protection of Children’s Rights, in 2010; the Law for the Protection from Discrimination, in 2010; and the Law on Mental Health, in 2012;
(b) Amendments to the Criminal Code, in 2013, which extended protection against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, criminalized “internal trafficking” (Law No. 144/2013) and introduced a special chapter on the “Responsibility of Corruptive Crimes”;
Link to full text of the report: Concluding Observations-CESCR-Albania-2013-eng