A/HRC/9/21 page 8 III. MANDATE AND WORKING METHODS OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR 24. The Special Rapporteur wishes to emphasize from the outset that her mandate is set in the context of various mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights, in particular within the special procedures system. Her mandate cannot in any sense be taken in isolation from the other mandates. Similarly, the various situations and violations covered by her mandate need to be considered as part of a holistic approach to the protection and promotion of human rights. 25. This concerted approach will make it possible to obtain a comprehensive overview and a wide-ranging analysis of the situation, with a view to proposing concrete, realistic and achievable recommendations and actions; these will in turn make it possible to pursue genuine child protection policies, properly coordinated, based on an intersectoral and multisectoral approach, appropriate to specific situations and covering prevention and the rehabilitation and reintegration of children, in addition to promotion of the rights of the child. 26. This means, inter alia, that a significant part of the Special Rapporteur’s work will involve sharing information and coordinating with those special procedures and treaty bodies whose thematic mandates are by their nature bound up with the issues of sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, in particular the Committee on the Rights of the Child; the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery; the Special Rapporteur on the human rights aspects of the victims of trafficking in persons, especially women and children; the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences; the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants; the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; the independent expert to direct an in-depth study of the question of violence against children; the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict; and the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. 27. With respect to the part of her mandate devoted to “the analysis of the root causes of sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography,”7 the Special Rapporteur proposes to cooperate with the Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons; the Special Rapporteur on the right to education; the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people; the independent expert on minority issues; the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty; and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. 28. In this context, in chapter III of her report the Special Rapporteur will identify those issues that, because of their cross-cutting nature, will be tackled in close coordination and cooperation with the aforementioned mandate holders, and those that are more directly covered by her mandate. Even for these more specific issues, however, the Special Rapporteur might well join with other mandate holders in bringing particular situations to the attention of Governments and other concerned parties. Depending on the type of the violation reported, she might join forces with the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable 7 Human Rights Council resolution 7/13, para. 2 (b).

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