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(b) To comply with their obligations as assumed under relevant provisions of
international human rights instruments, including the Convention on the Rights of
the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 21
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(c) To keep in mind the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of
those facing the death penalty and the guarantees set out in United Nations
safeguards adopted by the Economic and Social Council;
37. Also calls upon all States to ensure that no child in detention is sentenced
to forced labour or any form of cruel or degrading punishment, or deprived of
access to and provision of health-care services, hygiene and environmental
sanitation, education, basic instruction and vocational training;
Prevention and eradication of the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography
38.
Calls upon all States:
(a) To criminalize and penalize effectively all forms of sexual exploitation
and sexual abuse of children, including all acts of paedophilia, including within the
family or for commercial purposes, child pornography and child prostitution, child
sex tourism, trafficking in children, the sale of children and the use of the Internet
and other information and communications technologies for these purposes, and to
take effective measures against the criminalization of children who are victims of
exploitation;
(b) To ensure the prosecution and punishment of offenders, whether local or
foreign, by the competent national authorities, either in the country in which the
crime was committed, in the country of which the offender is a national or resident,
in the country of which the victim is a national, or on any other basis permitted
under domestic law, and for these purposes to afford one another the greatest
measure of assistance and the necessary collaboration for prevention, detection,
investigations or criminal or extradition proceedings;
(c) To criminalize and penalize effectively the sale of children, including for
the purposes of transfer of organs of the child for profit, to increase cooperation at
all levels to prevent and dismantle networks trafficking in or selling children and
their organs and, for those States that have not yet done so, to consider signing and
ratifying or acceding to the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in
Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime; 22
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(d) To give due consideration to the recommendations made by the Special
Rapporteur on the human rights aspects of the victims of trafficking in persons,
especially women and children, in her last report, 23 which was devoted to the
subject of forced marriage in the context of trafficking in persons;
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(e) In cases of trafficking in children, the sale of children, child prostitution,
child pornography and child sex tourism, to address effectively the needs of victims,
including their safety, legal assistance and protection, physical and psychological
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See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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A/HRC/4/23 and Corr.1 and Add.1 and 2 and Add.2/Corr.1.
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