A/RES/53/128 Page 6 1. Welcomes the interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography,12 which this year focuses on the issues of sale and trafficking of children, for all purposes of commercial sexual exploitation or otherwise, and expresses its support for her work; 2. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with all necessary human and financial assistance to enable her to discharge her mandate fully; 3. 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-fifth session of the Commission with a view to finalizing that work before the tenth anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child;4 4. Invites Governments, relevant specialized agencies, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the relevant special rapporteur and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to provide comments, inter alia, on the scope of the optional protocol, prior to the next session of the working group; 5. Calls upon all States parties to the Convention 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 and abuse, including child prostitution and child pornography; 6. Calls upon States to criminalize all forms of sexual exploitation of children, including commercial sexual exploitation, and to condemn and penalize all those offenders involved, whether local or foreign, while ensuring that children victims of this practice are not penalized; 7. Also calls upon States to enact and enforce appropriate laws and to design and implement policies and programmes to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse, in particular child prostitution, child pornography and child sex tourism; 8. Further calls upon States to review and revise, where appropriate, laws, policies, programmes and practices to eliminate all forms of sexual exploitation and abuse of children, including commercial sexual exploitation; 9. Requests all States to implement, on an urgent basis, measures to protect children from all forms of sexual exploitation and abuse, including measures in line with those outlined in the Declaration and Agenda for Action of the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held at Stockholm from 27 to 31 August 1996;13 10. Encourages regional and interregional efforts, such as the Child Welfare Experts’ Conference of the Asia-Europe Meeting, held in London from 6 to 8 October 1998, to follow up the implementation of the Agenda for Action of the Congress, with the objective of identifying best practices and issues requiring particularly urgent action; 12 A/53/311, annex. 13 A/51/385, annex. /...