A/RES/57/190 IV Prevention and eradication of the sale of children and of their sexual exploitation and abuse, including child prostitution and child pornography 1. Welcomes the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, 14 and expresses its support for his work; 2. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with all necessary human and financial assistance to enable him to discharge his mandate fully; 3. Calls upon States to continue to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur and to give full consideration to all of his recommendations; 4. Invites further voluntary contributions through the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and support for the work of the Special Rapporteur for the effective fulfilment of his mandate; 5. Welcomes the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography 15 and urges States parties to implement it fully, and also invites States that have not yet done so to consider signing and ratifying it; 6. Reaffirms the obligation of States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child2 and the Optional Protocols thereto 3 to prevent the abduction of, the sale of or the trafficking in children for any purpose or in any form, including the transfer of the organs of the child for profit, and to protect children from all forms of sexual exploitation and abuse, in accordance with articles 35 and 34 of the Convention; 7. Calls upon States to take all appropriate steps to combat the misuse of new information and communication technologies, including the Internet, for trafficking in children and for purposes of all forms of sexual exploitation and abuse, in particular the sale of children, child prostitution, child pornography, child sex tourism, acts of paedophilia and other forms of violence and abuse against children and adolescents, and notes that the use of such technologies can also contribute to preventing and eradicating such phenomena; 8. Also calls upon States to criminalize and to penalize effectively, in conformity with all relevant and applicable international instruments, all forms of sexual exploitation and abuse of children, including within the family or for commercial purposes, paedophilia, child pornography, child prostitution, child sex tourism, trafficking, the sale of children and their organs, engagement in forced child labour and any other form of exploitation, while ensuring that, in the treatment by the criminal justice system of children who are victims, the best interest of the child shall be a primary consideration, and to take effective measures to ensure the prosecution of offenders, whether local or foreign, by the competent national authorities, either in the country of origin of the offender or in the country in which the abuse occurs, in accordance with due process of law; _______________ 14 15 10 E/CN.4/2002/88. Resolution 54/263, annex II.