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Promotion and Protection of all Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, including the Right to Development

Document number
2247
Date
2009
Title
Promotion and Protection of all Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, including the Right to Development
Author/publisher
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Najat M’jid Maalla
Availability
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Document type(s)
Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
Keywords
Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/12/23 13 July 2009 ENGLISH Original: FRENCH , General Assembly
Summary
In the context of monitoring implementation of the recommendations made by the previous  Special Rapporteur in 2005, and of follow-up to the Third World Congress against Commercial  Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, held in Rio de Janeiro, and to the  recommendations of the United Nations Study on Violence Against Children (A/61/299) and the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the present report is intended to  take stock of progress made, identify remaining challenges and make specific recommendations  on how better to prevent and combat child pornography on the Internet.  Given the seriousness of the crime, the Special Rapporteur is of the opinion that relevant  legislation should be clear and comprehensive and treat child pornography on the Internet as a  grave violation of the rights of the child and as a criminal act.
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