UN — Report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material (15 January 2018)

On 4 Octo­ber 2017, the Spe­cial Rap­por­teur chaired a ses­sion on child sex­u­al abuse online, at the World Con­gress on Child Dig­ni­ty in the Dig­i­tal World, orga­nized by the Cen­tre for Child Pro­tec­tion of the Pon­tif­i­cal Gre­go­ri­an Uni­ver­si­ty in Rome.

5. On 10 Octo­ber 2017, the Spe­cial Rap­por­teur and the Spe­cial Rap­por­teur on traf­fick­ing in per­sons, espe­cial­ly women and chil­dren, pre­sent­ed their joint report on vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties of chil­dren to sale, traf­fick­ing, and oth­er forms of exploita­tion in sit­u­a­tions of con­flict and human­i­tar­i­an cri­sis, to the Gen­er­al Assem­bly at its sev­en­ty-sec­ond session

and agrees with her

A child is not a good or ser­vice that the State can guar­an­tee or pro­vide, but rather a rights-bear­ing human being.  a “right to a child” would be a fun­da­men­tal denial of the equal human rights of the child. The “right to a child” approach must be resist­ed vig­or­ous­ly, for it under­mines the fun­da­men­tal premise of chil­dren as per­sons with human rights. 

 

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