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A/RES/74/174 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 7 January 2020 Seventy-fourth session Agenda item 106 Crime prevention and criminal justice Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2019 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/400)] 74/174. Countering child sexual exploitation and sexual abuse online The General Assembly, Recognizing the potential for victims 1 of child sexual exploitation and sexual abuse online to experience life-changing trauma, including negative developmental trajectories, Acknowledging that advances in information and communications technologies have provided significant economic and social advantages to countries, communities and children, fuelling economic development and encouraging interconnectedness through the sharing of ideas and experiences, but that such advances also present unprecedented opportunities for child sex offenders to access, produce and distribute child sexual abuse material that violates the integrity and rights of children and enable harmful online contact with children, irrespective of their physical location or nationality, Concerned that new and evolving information and communications technologies, including encryption capability and anonymizing tools, are being misused to commit crimes involving child sexual exploitation and sexual abuse, Noting that child sexual exploitation and sexual abuse may take many forms, such as, but not limited to, contact and non-contact offending, online offending, trafficking in children for the purposes of sexual exploitation, grooming for sexual purposes, using child sexual abuse images for blackmail or extortion, the acquisition, production, distribution, making available, sale, copying, possession and accessing of child sexual abuse material and live-streaming of child sexual abuse, and that all __________________ 1 19-22331 (E) The term “survivors” is often used to acknowledge that victims of child sexual abuse and child exploitation online can recover from the trauma they have endured. 100120 *1922331*