SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 8
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Since the launch of the campaign, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography has received 29 additional ratifications and is currently in force in 166 countries. Of the 27 States not yet party to the Optional Protocol, the majority have made formal commitments to its ratification in the framework of the universal periodic review process of the Human Rights Council, and before the Committee on the Rights of the Child and other human rights mechanisms.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children