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

A/RES/49/210View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 101 Promotion and protection of the rights of children, published in 1995.

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12 subjects

Child Pornography Child Prostitution Cooperation Between Organizations Guidelines Human Rights Violations Inter-Agency Cooperation Laws and Regulations Rights of the Child Sale of Children Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties Working Groups

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Welcomes the provisional report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography,⁶

⁶A/49/478.

Expresses deep concern at the alarming increase in violations of the rights of the child worldwide, in particular the growing number of incidents 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;

Calls upon those States that 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;

Notes the establishment by the Economic and Social Council by its resolution 1994/9 of 22 July 1994 of an open-ended working group of the Commission on Human Rights responsible for elaborating, as a matter of priority and in close cooperation with the Special Rapporteur and the Committee on the Rights of the Child, guidelines for a possible draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, as well as establishing the basic measures needed for the prevention and eradication of those abnormal practices,

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit the report of the working group to Governments, the Special Rapporteur and the intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations concerned;

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 fiftieth session;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat is provided, within existing resources, with the staff and other resources it requires to assist the Special Rapporteur and the working group in the effective discharge of their mandates;

Decides to consider this question at its fiftieth session under the item entitled "Promotion and protection of the rights of children".

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