United Nations Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of
Violence against Children in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
A/RES/69/194
(i) To use research studies and data collection to inform policy and practice
and to exchange and disseminate information concerning successful violence
prevention practices;
(j) To encourage and provide sufficient financial support for research on
violence against children;
(k) To ensure that data, periodic reports and research are aimed at supporting
the efforts of Member States to address violence against children and are used in the
framework of constructive cooperation and dialogue with and among Member States.
Part two
Enhancing the ability and capacity of the criminal justice system to respond to
violence against children and protect child victims
IV.
Establishing effective detection and reporting mechanisms
19. In order to respond to the need to detect and report acts of violence against
children, Member States are urged, as appropriate:
(a) To ensure that measures are taken to identify risk factors for different
types of violence and identify signs of actual violence in order to trigger appropriate
intervention as early as possible;
(b) To ensure that criminal justice professionals who routinely come into
contact with children in the course of their work are aware of risk factors and
indicators of various forms of violence, in particular at the national level, and that
they have received guidance and are trained on how to interpret such indicators and
have the knowledge, willingness and ability necessary to take appropriate action,
including the provision of immediate protection;
(c) To legally require professionals who routinely come into contact with
children in the course of their work to notify appropriate authorities if they suspect
that a child is, or is likely to become, a victim of violence;
(d) To ensure that safe child- and gender-sensitive approaches, procedures and
complaint, reporting and counselling mechanisms are established by law, are in
conformity with the obligations of Member States under the relevant international
human rights instruments, take into account relevant international standards and
norms on crime prevention and criminal justice and are easily accessible to all
children and their representative or a third party without fear of reprisal or
discrimination;
(e) To ensure that individuals, and in particular children, reporting in good
faith alleged incidents of violence against children are protected against all forms of
reprisal;
(f) To work with Internet service providers, mobile telephone companies,
search engines, public Internet facilities and others to facilitate and, where feasible,
enact appropriate legislative measures to ensure the reporting of any representation,
by whatever means, of a child engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activities or
any representation of the sexual parts of a child for primarily sexual purposes, defined
as child pornography under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of
the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography24 to the
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