A/HRC/7/8 page 20 shelter, long-term treatment, home and post-institutional follow-up. The services provided include medical attention, dental care, nutrition, cultural, recreational and sport activities. Finally, in Chile and in Guatemala, ECPAT operates centres with partner NGOs where child victims are provided with individual treatment, crisis intervention, group counselling, peer support, legal assistance, recreational activities and assistance to their family members. 67. In Honduras, the NGO Casa Alianza has been providing rehabilitation programmes in its shelters for minors who are victims of commercial sexual exploitation. This Residential Program for Integral Attention to Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Children Trade, called “Querubines”, is financed with the help of ICORDAID (Dutch Cooperation Agency), Diagrama Foundation and ILO through its IPEC programme. Support is provided to about 80 to 90 minors who are victims each year. This residential programme helps their social reinsertion through artistic, sport and cultural activities and also provides health attention for reducing damages of psychoactive drugs to which many children are addicted. Children are also provided with legal assistance and receive training on the importance of having personal goals and a paid job. A specific reintegration watch has been put in place for 80 girls who are direct victims of commercial sexual exploitation and have rejoined their families. The activities of Casa Alianza aim to obtain family and community support for the social reinsertion of minors, and to eliminate conditions that can make the children vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation and trade. 68. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has been supporting projects3 together with NGOs and other civil society actors: in South Africa to prevent trafficking and child prostitution; in India, the Czech Republic and Poland to provide advocacy and witness protection for children and risk and for victims of trafficking; and in the Philippines to rehabilitation centres for victims of trafficking and sexual commercial exploitation. 69. The Special Rapporteur has also been informed that UNICEF has been supporting several preventive and rehabilitation projects for minors at risk or victims of sexual commercial exploitation or trafficking, notably in Africa and Asia. In some instances, these projects operate jointly with State initiatives or with NGOs. V. CONCLUSIONS 70. The Special Rapporteur would like to warmly thank all those who responded to the questionnaire. The Special Rapporteur regrets that so few Member States have provided on-time answers to his questionnaire, and notes with concern that the number of replies declined from last year, which was already weak. This report does not pretend to give a comprehensive analysis of the issue discussed; its aim is to rather highlight positive examples of national policies and strategies as well as to discuss such examples of good practices developed by international organizations, NGOs and the civil society in assistance and rehabilitation programmes for child victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking. Only relevant selections of the experiences and initiatives on which information was received have been outlined in this report. 3 “Trafficking of women into the South African Sex industry and the trafficking of children for purposes of sexual exploitation”, published by the organization Molo Songololo.

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