Need to Adopt Efficient International Measures for the Prevention of the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography

A/RES/48/156View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 172 Necessity of adopting effective measures for the promotion and protection of the rights of children throughout the world who are victims of especially difficult circumstances, including armed conflicts, published in 1994.

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12 subjects

Child Labour Child Pornography Child Prostitution Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Guidelines Labour Exploitation Laws and Regulations Rights of the Child Sale of Children Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties Working Groups

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11 operative paragraphs

A/45/625, annex.

A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.

Expresses great concern at the growing number of incidents worldwide related to the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography;

Urges Governments to continue searching for solutions as well as ways and means of enhancing international cooperation to eradicate such aberrant practices;

Expresses its support for the work of the Special Rapporteur appointed by the Commission on Human Rights to examine all over the world the question of the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and urges him to continue his efforts in the discharge of his mandate;

Urges all Governments to collaborate with the Special Rapporteur and to assist him by providing him with all the requested information;

See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1992, Supplement No. 2 (E/1992/22), chap. II, sect. A.

Calls upon those States which have not done so to become parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and calls upon the States parties to the Convention to implement national measures aimed at fulfilling the provisions of the Convention;

Requests the Commission on Human Rights to consider, during its fiftieth session, the creation of a working group to study, as a matter of priority and in close contact with the Special Rapporteur, the elaboration of guidelines for a possible draft convention on the issues related to the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, as well as the basic measures required for preventing and eradicating these serious problems;

Requests the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat to transmit paragraph 6 above to the Committee on the Rights of the Child so that it can express its comments;

Invites the Special Rapporteur, within the framework of his mandate, to continue giving attention to the economic, social, legal and cultural factors affecting these phenomena;

Requests the Special Rapporteur to submit a provisional report to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session;

Requests the Secretary-General, from within existing resources, to provide the Special Rapporteur and the working group of the Commission on Human Rights with every necessary assistance;

Decides to consider this question at its forty-ninth session under the item entitled "Necessity of adopting effective measures for the promotion and protection of the rights of children throughout the world who are victims of especially difficult circumstances, including armed conflicts".

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