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49.
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;
50.
Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur
with all necessary human and financial assistance to make the full discharge
of the mandate possible and to enable her to submit an interim report to the
General Assembly at its fifty-second session and a report to the Commission on
Human Rights at its fifty-third session;
51.
Supports the work of the open-ended inter-sessional working group
of the Commission on Human Rights on the elaboration of a draft optional
protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child related to the sale of
children, child prostitution and child pornography, and expresses the hope
that it will make further progress prior to the fifty-third session of the
Commission with a view to finalizing this work;
52.
Calls upon all States parties to fulfil their obligation under
article 34 of the Convention, and also calls upon all States to support
efforts in the context of the United Nations system aimed at adopting
effective national, bilateral and multilateral measures for the prevention and
eradication of the sale of children and of their sexual exploitation,
including child prostitution and child pornography, in particular by
criminalizing the sexual exploitation of children;
53.
Welcomes the convening of the World Congress against Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children, held at Stockholm from 27 to 31 August 1996,
and expresses its appreciation to the Government of Sweden for organizing it,
in cooperation with the United Nations Children's Fund, End Child Prostitution
in Asian Tourism and the Non-Governmental Organizations Group for the
Convention on the Rights of the Child;
54.
Welcomes with satisfaction the adoption and dissemination of the
Declaration and Agenda for Action of the World Congress against Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children,15 which constitutes an important contribution
to the global efforts aimed at the eradication of such practices;
55.
Requests all States to implement on an urgent basis measures to
protect children from all forms of sexual exploitation, including measures in
line with those outlined in the Declaration and Agenda for Action;
56.
Calls upon States to criminalize the commercial sexual
exploitation of children and the other forms of sexual exploitation of
children and to condemn and penalize all those offenders involved, whether
local or foreign, while ensuring that children victims of this practice are
not penalized;
57.
Also calls upon States to review and revise, where appropriate,
laws, policies, programmes and practices to eliminate the commercial sexual
exploitation of children;
15
A/51/385, annex.
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