Comprehensive, rights-based and child-centred care, recovery and reintegration programmes 2015, para. 59
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Common challenges to successful care, recovery and reintegration of child victims of sexual exploitation include: (a) a lack of understanding of child sexual exploitation on the part of professionals, which hampers their ability to take complaints seriously; (b) a lack of specialized caregivers, mandatory training and minimum qualifications for caregivers and minimum standards for organizations that provide care; (c) a lack of consistent resources, including funding, to establish long-term care and recovery programmes; and (d) discrimination on the basis of legal status, gender and age. Other challenges are related to lack of gender sensitivity and child and youth participation, and social norms and cultural values that tolerate the sexual exploitation of children.
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Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material