Human Rights Council Resolution 7/13. Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography The Human Rights Council, Bearing in mind paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, Recalling Council resolutions 5/1 on institution-building of the United Nations Human Rights Council and 5/2 on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate-holder shall discharge his/her duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto, Recalling also all previous resolutions on the mandate on sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, especially Commission on Human Rights resolution 1990/68 of 7 March 1990 and decision 2004/285 of the Economic and Social Council of 22 July 2004, Bearing in mind the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols and other instruments relating to this mandate, Deeply concerned about the persistence of the practices of sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography in many parts of the world, 1. Welcomes the work and contributions of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; 2. Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for a period of three years: (a) To consider matters relating to the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography;