A/HRC/7/8 page 8 21. In his 2004 report (E/CN.4/2004/9), the Special Rapporteur focused on the prevention of child sexual exploitation. The report reflected a variety of programmes and projects that could be utilized in the prevention of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), highlighting good practices and experiences that should be known and taken into account worldwide. The strategic area of prevention of the Stockholm Agenda for Action against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children was used as a basis for categorizing the initiatives outlined in the report. The Special Rapporteur also welcomed the entry into force of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the issuing of the Secretary-General’s bulletin on special measures for protection from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse (ST/SGB/2003/13). 22. In his 2005 report, the Special Rapporteur focused on child pornography on the Internet (E/CN.4/2005/78 and Corr.1 and Add.1-4), a subject on which little written data and analysis were available. The report examined the definition of child pornography in international instruments and national legislation and referred in particular to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime. Internet created unprecedented opportunities, together with the challenges and threats of its abusive and harmful use. Cyberspace hosts an alarming quantity of child pornographic material. Chat rooms are increasingly used by sexual abusers as a means for making contact with children as part of the “grooming” process. The report had an impact in many State agencies and NGOs, as it gathered information of a very challenging nature. As an example, the Government of Chile invited the Special Rapporteur to present officially his report to the Servicio Nacional de Menores and to the police forces in July 2005. 23. In 2006, the Special Rapporteur focused in his report (E/CN.4/2006/67) on the issue of demand for sexual services deriving from exploitation, a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. In any situation of child sexual exploitation, there were several different kinds of demand generated by different actors at different times. The demand factor went hand in hand with the supply factor and the reasons that push children into sexual exploitation were also multiple. The Special Rapporteur stressed that educational programmes and awareness-raising activities were essential to reduce demand for services deriving from sexual exploitation. Persons in prostitution should never be penalized - either directly for prostitution or indirectly for engaging in a commercial activity without a visa or permit. Non-criminalization ensured that women and children who are forced into prostitution have access to the authorities without fear of punishment. However, child sexual exploitation should always be criminalized, whether committed at home (internal trafficking) or abroad, and whether involving an individual or an organized group. Consent of the child to trafficking is always to be considered irrelevant. 24. Finally, in his 2007 report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/4/31), the Special Rapporteur focused on the issues of sale of children’s organs and rapid response programmes for abducted and disappeared children, for which he continued to receive late replies to the questionnaire sent for the preparation of the report. 25. The Special Rapporteur concluded that the issue of sale of organs and tissues, particularly of children’s organs, remained mostly unsubstantiated. Only anecdotal cases of abductions for the purpose of trafficking of organs were reported. On the other hand, in some countries there

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