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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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