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29. Encourages States to promote actions, including through bilateral and
multilateral technical cooperation and financial assistance, for the social
reintegration of children in difficult situations, considering, inter alia, views, skills
and capacities that those children have developed in the conditions in which they
lived and, where appropriate, with their meaningful participation;
Prevention and eradication of the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography
30.
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 their organs and the use
of the Internet for these purposes, and to take effective measures against the
criminalization of children who are victims of exploitation;
(b) To ensure the prosecution 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 in connection with investigations or criminal or extradition proceedings;
(c) To increase cooperation at all levels to prevent and dismantle networks
trafficking 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; 14
(d) In cases of trafficking in children, the sale of children, child prostitution
and child pornography, to address effectively the needs of victims, including their
safety and protection, physical and psychological recovery and full reintegration
into society, including through bilateral and multilateral technical cooperation and
financial assistance;
(e) To combat the existence of a market that encourages such criminal
practices against children, including through the adoption, effective application and
enforcement of preventive, rehabilitative and punitive measures targeting customers
or individuals who sexually exploit or sexually abuse children, as well as by
ensuring public awareness;
(f) To contribute to the elimination of the sale of children, child prostitution
and child pornography by adopting a holistic approach, addressing the contributing
factors, including underdevelopment, poverty, economic disparities, inequitable
socio-economic structures, dysfunctional families, lack of education, urban-rural
migration, gender discrimination, criminal or irresponsible adult sexual behaviour,
child sex tourism, organized crime, harmful traditional practices, armed conflicts
and trafficking in children;
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Resolution 55/25, annex II.
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