7.
Calls upon all States:
(a)
To develop urgently, implement and enforce measures to eliminate the sale, trafficking,
abduction and sexual exploitation or abuse of children, including through child sex tourism, keeping in mind
especially the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the concrete measures outlined in the
Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and in the Programmes of Action adopted by the Commission in
1992 and 1993, as well as in the Declaration and Agenda for Action of the World Congress against Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in Stockholm in August 1996 at the initiative of the Government of
Sweden (A/51/385, annex);
(b)
To participate constructively in the negotiations on an optional protocol to the Convention on
the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography with the aim of an early
agreement on the text, recalling the mandate given to the working group by the Commission in its resolution
1995/78 of 8 March 1995;
(c)
To criminalize effectively commercial and all other forms of sexual exploitation and sexual
abuse of children, including child sex tourism, while ensuring that the child victims of such exploitation or abuse
are not penalized for such practices, to prosecute offenders, whether local or foreign, and to ensure that a person
who exploits a child for sexual abuse in another country is prosecuted by competent national authorities, either in
the offender's country of origin or in the destination country;
(d)
To step up cooperation and concerted action, at the national and international levels, by all
relevant authorities and institutions, especially those charged with law enforcement, with a view to combating
the existence of a market that encourages such criminal practices against children and dismantling national and
international networks trafficking in children;
(e)
And relevant United Nations bodies and agencies to allocate resources for comprehensive and
gender-sensitive programmes to rehabilitate physically and psychologically child victims of trafficking and of
any form of sexual exploitation and abuse, and to promote their social reintegration;
(f)
To work towards strengthening partnerships between Governments, international organizations
and all sectors of civil society, particularly non-governmental organizations, in order to achieve these objectives,
and welcomes the efforts already made in this respect;
(g)
To cooperate with and assist the Special Rapporteur and to furnish all information requested,
including by inviting her to visit their countries;
8.
Decides, with regard to the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography:
(a)
To renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for a further three years, to request the
Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with all necessary assistance, and to urge all relevant parts
of the United Nations system to provide the Special Rapporteur with comprehensive reporting to make the full
discharge of her mandate possible and to enable her to submit an interim report to the General Assembly at its
fifty-third session and a report to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-fifth session;
(b)
To invite the Special Rapporteur to continue to cooperate closely with other relevant United
Nations organs and bodies and to convey to the Commission her findings on developments and her
recommendations on the broad range of issues under her mandate;
9.
Decides, with regard to the question of a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the
Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography:
(a)
To request the Secretary-General to transmit the report of the working group on the question of
a draft optional protocol to Governments, relevant specialized agencies, the Committee on the Rights of the
Child, the relevant Special Rapporteur and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and to invite
their comments, inter alia on the scope of the optional protocol, in time for circulation prior to the next session of
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