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the combating of trafficking and sale of children for any purpose or in any form,
including the transfer of the organs of the child for profit, child prostitution and
child pornography, and encourages all actors of civil society, the private sector and
the media to cooperate in efforts to this end;
(b) To increase cooperation at all levels to prevent and dismantle networks
trafficking in children;
(c) To consider 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) To criminalize and effectively penalize all forms of sexual exploitation
and sexual abuse of children, including within the family or for commercial
purposes, child pornography and child prostitution, child sex tourism, the sale of
children and their organs, and the use of the Internet for these purposes, while
ensuring that, in the treatment by the criminal justice system of children who are
victims, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration, and to take
effective measures against the criminalization of children who are victims of
exploitation and effective measures to ensure the prosecution of offenders, whether
local or foreign, by the competent national authorities, either in the country where
the crime was committed, or in the country of which the offender is a national or
resident, or in the country of which the victim is a national, or on any other basis
permitted under domestic law in accordance with due process of law;
(e) In cases of the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography,
to address effectively the needs of victims, including their physical and
psychological recovery and full reintegration into their family and society;
(f) 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;
(g) To afford one another the greatest measure of assistance in connection
with investigations or criminal or extradition proceedings brought in respect of the
offences set forth in article 3, paragraph 1, of the Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography, 15 including assistance in obtaining evidence at their disposal for
the proceedings;
(h) 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, irresponsible adult sexual behaviour, harmful
traditional practices, armed conflicts and trafficking in children;
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Resolution 55/25, annex II.
Resolution 54/263, annex II.
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