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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 8
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- The Special Rapporteur intends to ensure the continuity of the work of her predecessors, maintaining and building on their activities and accomplishments. She will seek to consolidate their efforts and will explore new directions in which to develop the mandate based on her vision, expertise and experience. The Special Rapporteur wishes to pay tribute to her predecessor, Najat Maalla M'jid, for her contribution and commitment to increasing knowledge and awareness of the scourge of the sale and sexual exploitation of children, for her constructive dialogue and action-oriented recommendations during and after country visits and for strengthening cooperation with civil society and non-governmental organizations. She is also to be commended for having consulted children and taken their views into account in her work, with the ultimate goal of making specific changes in their lives.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 10
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- The Special Rapporteur will adopt a child-centred approach in the implementation of her mandate. All activities to prevent and combat the sale and sexual exploitation of children will be designed and developed incorporating the four principles enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, namely non-discrimination (art. 2), the best interests of the child (art. 3), the right to life, survival and development (art. 6) and respect for the views of the child (art. 12). Children will not be seen exclusively as passive recipients, victims or dependants, but will be treated as rights holders and citizens who are entitled to be heard and to have their views taken seriously. This will be ensured through the adoption of child participation mechanisms in her methods of work, such as the use of child-sensitive and appropriate information, child-friendly spaces and forums, children's involvement in research and data collection, empowerment of child-led organizations and peer initiatives, and child participation in developing and monitoring child protection projects and policies. Such participatory mechanisms will enable the Special Rapporteur to reach out to children and those working and living with them and to take their opinions and suggestions into account in a meaningful way in her recommendations to promote and defend children's rights.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 11
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- The Special Rapporteur will integrate a gender perspective throughout her work, as mandated by resolution 7/13. She considers that sensitivity to the ways in which the phenomena of the sale and sexual exploitation of children affects boys and girls differently is essential for proposing effective recommendations. In this respect, she will take into consideration the gender dimension of sexual exploitation which, according to available data, disproportionately affects girls. The Special Rapporteur will take into account the different needs and opportunities of boys and girls through, among other things, the collection and analysis of disaggregated data and propose gender-specific recommendations for their care and recovery.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 12
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- The Special Rapporteur is aware of the various bodies and mechanisms within the United Nations system dealing with situations and violations affecting children. As required by resolution 7/13, she intends to work in close coordination with them in order to ensure complementarity and avoid unnecessary duplication. In respect of the special procedures mandate holders who address cross-cutting issues and concerns relating to her mandate, such as the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants and the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, she intends to discuss and develop with them joint methods of work, such as the presentation of joint thematic reports, the conducting of coordinated country visits, the issuance of joint communications and the organization of joint awareness-raising activities. The Special Rapporteur will also deploy efforts to mainstream the protection and promotion of children's rights within the special procedures system, while according priority to certain issues and concerns that need to be tackled in a coordinated manner in order to enhance their impact when bringing particular situations to the attention of Governments and other stakeholders concerned. Her ultimate goal is to ensure that all mandate holders take a common approach towards addressing the impact of legislative and policy measures on children and their rights.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 13
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- The Special Rapporteur will also seek to enhance cooperation with the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Children in Armed Conflict, whose thematic mandates are by their nature bound up with the issues of sale and sexual exploitation of children. Modalities for cooperation may include regularly sharing information, coordinating activities and conducting joint actions, including issuing joint reports and organizing joint awareness-raising events. The Special Rapporteur will also look to strengthen interaction and cooperation with relevant regional mechanisms, in particular the Special Rapporteur on Rights of Women in Africa of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Office of the Rapporteur on the Rights of the Child of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In addition, she will advocate the development of a permanent regional mechanism dedicated specifically to the promotion and protection of children's rights in Asia and the Pacific.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 14
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- The scope of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur is determined by the resolutions on the establishment and renewal of the mandate, in particular Commission on Human Rights resolution 1990/68 and Human Rights Council resolution 7/13. Hence, the Special Rapporteur will continue to analyse the root causes of the sale and sexual exploitation of children; address all the contributing factors, including demand; make recommendations on preventing and combating new patterns of the phenomena; identify and promote good practices on measures to combat them; promote comprehensive prevention strategies; and make recommendations on aspects relating to the rehabilitation of child victims.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 15
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- The Special Rapporteur will continue to apply a broad interpretation of the scope of her mandate on the basis of the aforementioned resolutions, which require her, among other things, to consider matters relating to the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and to make recommendations on the promotion and protection of the human rights of children who are actual or potential victims. Consequently, in line with the work of her predecessors, the Special Rapporteur will continue to address issues relating to the sexual abuse of, violence against and exploitation of children, with the ultimate goal of promoting a greater level of protection by the stakeholders concerned, in particular Member States. She intends to remain alert to emerging trends and specific aspects of the phenomena and to study the threats and risk factors that enhance the vulnerability of children to them, with the aim of proposing and promoting comprehensive strategies and good practices to combat the sale and sexual exploitation of children effectively.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 16
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- The Special Rapporteur's framework for action is also guided by the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Although she intends to use the definitions provided by articles 2 and 3 of the Optional Protocol as a reference, the Special Rapporteur will continue to address the various aspects and forms of sexual abuse, violence and exploitation directed at children that fall within the scope of her mandate, beyond those guaranteed by the Optional Protocol, with the ultimate goal of enhancing the protection of children from sale and sexual exploitation. Similarly, the Special Rapporteur will be guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the core international human rights treaty specifically related to her mandate, which sets the international norms and standards regarding children's rights. The Special Rapporteur will also take into account general comments and decisions of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, which assist in interpreting the scope and meaning of specific articles, provisions and themes of the Convention. To the extent that the situations covered by her mandate are multifaceted and could have implications for the enjoyment of a wide range of human rights, the other core international human rights treaties also provide a natural legal framework for the mandate, as does the jurisprudence of the relevant treaty monitoring bodies.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 17
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- Other international child rights instruments complement the Convention and the Optional Protocol and provide detailed norms and standards with a view to prohibiting, preventing and responding to the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. They include the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the Convention; the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization (ILO); the ILO Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138); the ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), and its Protocol of 2014 adopted to address gaps in implementation of the Convention and reaffirm that measures of prevention, protection and remedies were necessary to achieve the effective and sustained elimination of forced labour; and the Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 18
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- At the regional level, relevant instruments relating to the mandate include the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 19
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- The Special Rapporteur will also take into account decisive commitments and standards on children adopted at the international level, in particular the Rio de Janeiro Declaration and Call for Action to Prevent and Stop Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents (2008), the Yokohama Global Commitment (2001) and the Stockholm Declaration and Agenda for Action against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (1996).
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 20
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- The Special Rapporteur will continue to address endemic situations and emerging threats relating to the sale and sexual exploitation of children, with the aim of preventing and combating the phenomena and providing children with human rights-compliant protection, care and recovery. The Special Rapporteur will therefore examine issues, trends and effects relating to the sexual exploitation of children online; sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, including in the context of major sports events; child prostitution, child pornography and child trafficking for sale and sexual exploitation; and sale of children for the purposes of illegal adoption, transfer of organs, child marriage and forced labour.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 21
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- The Special Rapporteur will carry out her mandate in compliance with the code of conduct for special procedures mandate holders annexed to Human Rights Council resolution 5/2 and the manual of operations of the special procedures of the Council as adopted at the fifteenth annual meeting of special procedures mandate holders, held in June 2008 (A/HRC/10/24, chap. V.A). The Special Rapporteur will discharge her functions with complete independence and in accordance with the terms of her mandate, through dialogue and cooperation with all stakeholders, with the objective of preventing and combating the sale and sexual exploitation of children from a human rights perspective.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 24
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- The Special Rapporteur will continue to take a holistic approach towards effectively combating the sale and sexual exploitation of children. This involves promoting the design and implementation of comprehensive strategies and programmes of action aimed at the establishment of rights-based national child protection systems, which encompass awareness-raising, prevention, sexual education, law enactment and enforcement, collection and analysis of reliable data, birth registration, detection, investigation, prosecution, punishment and treatment of perpetrators, child-sensitive counselling, complaint and reporting mechanisms, care, recovery and social integration of child victims and, in general, the promotion of children's rights. The Special Rapporteur will aim to propose specific and achievable recommendations, promote good practices and successful initiatives and facilitate transnational cooperation and increased corporate social responsibility. In this respect, the Special Rapporteur intends to support efforts by Member States to prevent and combat the sale and sexual exploitation of children and to increase visibility of their positive results and achievements with the aim of promoting their replication in other parts of the world.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 25
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- Building upon the work of her predecessors, the Special Rapporteur intends to conduct research and present her first thematic report on the issue of information and communications technology and sexual exploitation of children. In that report, she will update the studies presented on the topic by her predecessors in 2005 (E/CN.4/2005/78 and Corr.2) and 2009 (A/HRC/12/23) and aim to reflect new trends, challenges, threats and responses to the phenomenon, including various types of child abuse and exploitation facilitated by information and communications technology, available legal instruments and good practices that assist in preventing and combating the phenomenon, and the role that the business sector and non-governmental organizations can play therein.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 26
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- The Special Rapporteur also intends to develop, through research and thematic studies, other issues that directly affect her mandate, such as the consequences and impact of sale and sexual exploitation on child victims and the development of adequate comprehensive care to facilitate their recovery and reintegration. In addition, she will conduct research on a problem that has been the focus of the mandate since its creation by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 1999/68, namely the sale of children for the purposes of illegal adoption. The Special Rapporteur also plans to present a thematic report on the demand factor underpinning the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography that will update the 2006 thematic report on the topic (E/CN.4/2006/67). While the Special Rapporteur intends to accord priority to thematic studies on those issues, she will also continue to cover and follow up on other thematic concerns addressed by her predecessors, such as the issue of sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, including in the context of major sports events, and the sale and sexual exploitation of children following humanitarian crises stemming from natural disasters and climate-related catastrophes.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 29
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- The main purpose of the country visits is to propose specific recommendations to the Governments and other stakeholders concerned on protecting children's rights and preventing violations and to assist them in better preventing and combating the sale and sexual exploitation of children. The Special Rapporteur will place particular emphasis on follow-up to recommendations made in her own reports, in addition to those made by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, provided that they fall within the scope of her mandate. In addition, the Special Rapporteur will maximize the opportunities offered by country visits to enhance the preventive role of the special procedures system by highlighting situations that have the potential to degenerate into gross human rights violations and international crimes, while assisting States in their protection responsibilities.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 32
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- The Special Rapporteur will promote, facilitate and organize awareness-raising and advocacy activities on thematic priorities and issues of concern in relation to her mandate in order to enhance knowledge and visibility around them and call for the eradication and prevention of sale and sexual exploitation of children. The aforementioned thematic priorities and advocacy issues will guide the participation and support of the Special Rapporteur in various seminars, conferences and other events, which she will use to exchange information on relevant developments, identify and share good practices and successful initiatives and create synergies for advocacy purposes. The Special Rapporteur will also issue press statements on the occasion of relevant international days, including jointly with other special procedures mandate holders and child protection mechanisms and bodies, to alert stakeholders concerned of the need to address specific human rights issues relating to her mandate.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 34
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- Apart from raising awareness on thematic priorities that are directly affected by her mandate, the Special Rapporteur intends to work in close coordination and cooperation with relevant special procedures mandate holders and other international and regional mechanisms to engage in advocacy for cross-cutting issues of concern. Issues for joint advocacy efforts include preventing and ending child and forced marriage and protecting unaccompanied migrant children, street children and children with albinism from violence and exploitation.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 36
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- The Special Rapporteur will also devote advocacy efforts to raising awareness of the fact that, under certain circumstances, the sale and sexual exploitation of children can amount to international crimes, including war crimes and crimes against humanity. In such cases, she will call for perpetrators to be held accountable, through appropriate human rights- compliant justice mechanisms, at the national or international level, with the ultimate goal of bringing them to justice and providing redress to victims. The Special Rapporteur is convinced that ensuring accountability for those crimes can have a deterrent effect and will send a strong signal that such grave crimes deeply shock the conscience of humanity. At the same time, in her advocacy work the Special Rapporteur will insist on the responsibility of States to protect rights holders by adopting preventive measures, including legislation that criminalizes those horrendous acts.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 37
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- Lastly, the Special Rapporteur will closely follow negotiations on sustainable development goals and the post-2015 development agenda in order to support efforts and build partnerships to ensure that child protection issues are included in the outcome document, and that the goal of putting an end to sexual abuse, violence and exploitation directed against children becomes a reality by 2030.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 41
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- The year 2015 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the mandate on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Its continuous renewal underscores the need for the international community to step up efforts to combat the increasing phenomena of sexual abuse and exploitation of children. To properly discharge her functions and ensure the effective implementation of her mandate, stronger support, through the allocation of sufficient means and resources, will be key in the coming years, in particular to ensure appropriate follow-up to her recommendations.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Child participation 2012, para. 16
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- The Worst Forms of Child Labour Recommendation, 1999 (No. 190), under the auspices of the International Labour Organization, also states that the programmes of action referred to in the Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (Convention No. 182) should be designed and implemented in consultation with, and taking into consideration the views of, children directly affected by the worst forms of child labour (para. 2). The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, requires States to provide assistance to enable the views and concerns of victims of trafficking to be presented and considered at appropriate stages of criminal proceedings against offenders (art. 6 (2) (b)).
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2012
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Child participation 2012, para. 17
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- The Stockholm Declaration and Agenda for Action against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, adopted at the first World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in Stockholm from 27 to 31 August 1996, included a significant commitment to the participation of children and young people. While this commitment was reaffirmed at the second World Congress, held in Yokohama, Japan, from 17 to 20 December 2001, the third World Congress, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 25 to 28 November 2008, promoted an even broader agenda on children's civil rights and children's active role as citizens. Child participation was also an essential component of the report of the independent expert for the United Nations study on violence against children (A/61/299) and constitutes one of its overarching recommendations.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2012
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Child participation 2012, para. 19
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- Various guiding principles and standards have been developed by United Nations agencies and other international organizations, such as the Practice Standards in Children's Participation produced by Save the Children in 2005 and the Minimum Standards for Consulting with Children developed by the Inter-Agency Working Group on Children's Participation (comprising ECPAT International, Knowing Children, Plan, Save the Children, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Regional Office for East Asia and the Pacific, and World Vision Asia Pacific) in 2007. The latter were developed to improve the quality of consultations, maintain consistency and minimize potential abuse and exploitation during participation. They were designed to be applicable in various contexts and to describe the minimum expectations of behaviour by adults and children at consultation events.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2012
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Child participation 2012, para. 22
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- Numerous initiatives have been launched by stakeholders throughout the world to secure child participation in preventing and combating the sale and sexual exploitation of children. In the present section, the Special Rapporteur provides a brief overview of practices that have led to specific changes in ways of working with children as partners. Preference was given to documented practices relating specifically to the subject of the present report, bearing in mind geographical representation. Although these examples are not exhaustive and may need to be adapted to suit particular contexts, many are worth replicating.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2012
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Child participation 2012, para. 23
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- In accordance with article 17 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a child has the right to gain access to appropriate information and material. Gaining access to information is often the first step in the participation process, given that it allows an informed child to voice his or her opinion. In the context of the sale and sexual exploitation of children, this information is often delicate and must therefore take into consideration, and sometimes challenge, cultural and context-specific sensitivities. It is equally important, targeting the children who are most at risk and hard to reach, to ensure the broad geographical and linguistic reach of information tools and mechanisms. Consideration must also be given to the particular communication needs of children with disabilities.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2012
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Child participation 2012, para. 24
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- Education programmes have been developed in schools and represent a wide-reaching and potentially sustainable method of informing children. From 2008 to 2011, Barnardo's, a charity founded in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1866 to care for vulnerable children and young people, delivered a preventative education programme on child sexual exploitation intended to improve awareness and understanding of and response to sexual exploitation and to strengthen the confidence and ability of children and young people to resist unwanted sexual experiences. The programme, which included training and awareness-raising sessions, targeted local safeguarding children boards, schools and residential units from 25 London boroughs. In total, it involved 4,723 young people and 820 professionals. According to the final evaluation, published in 2011, half of the children involved demonstrated progress in identifying risk factors and safety strategies.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2012
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Child participation 2012, para. 26
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- Helplines have been set up as a safety net for children in many countries and should be an essential component of any information-sharing and reporting strategy on violence against and abuse and exploitation of children. These toll-free numbers provide children with information and immediate confidential support and link them with appropriate services. According to data provided by Child Helpline International, more than 14.5 million children (or adults on behalf of children) contacted helplines around the world in 2008. With the continuously expanding use of information and communications technology, including mobile telephony, text messaging, instant messaging and the Internet, some barriers preventing children from making use of existing helplines are being overcome.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2012
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Child participation 2012, para. 28
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- In Guatemala, peer educators at the Education Programme for Working Children and Adolescents, an institution of some 1,800 students providing education to working children, created a mural to raise awareness. The aim of this microproject was to ensure that young people and adolescents were aware of the dangers of commercial sexual exploitation of children. It provided a fun and interactive way to discuss the sensitive issues of commercial sexual exploitation of children, trafficking of children and HIV/AIDS with the most at-risk young people.
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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
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Education
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2012
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