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"UN: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, 2000" [2005] ELECD 243; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 20

Section Title: UN: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, 2000

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

20. UN: Optional Protocol to the Convention on
the Rights of the Child on the Sale of
Children, Child Prostitution and Child
Pornography, 2000

Commentary: The Optional Protocol (UN Doc A/54/49 Vol III (2000), entry
into force 2002) furthers Articles 1, 11, 21 and 32­7 of the Convention on the
Rights of the Child. The 1999 International Conference on Combating Child
Pornography on the Internet emphasised closer cooperation between governments
and the internet industry and called for the global criminalisation of producing,
distributing, exporting, transmitting, importing, intentionally possessing or advertis-
ing child pornography. See further, World Congress against the Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children: 1996 Stockholm Declaration and Agenda for Action for
the Prevention of the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography
(First Congress) and the 2001 Yokohama Global Commitment (Second Congress)
(www.csecworldcongress.org).




Article 1
States Parties shall prohibit the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography as
provided for by the present Protocol.


Article 2
For the purposes of the present Protocol:

(a) Sale of children means any act or transaction whereby a child is transferred by any
person or group of persons to another for remuneration or any other consideration;
(b) Child prostitution means the use of a child in sexual activities for remuneration or any
other form of consideration;
(c) Child pornography means any representation, by whatever means, of a child engaged
in real or simulated explicit sexual activities or any representation of the sexual parts
of a child ...