A/HRC/16/56 or risk of violence should, at a minimum, be required by professionals working directly with children. When reports are made in good faith, processes must be in place to ensure the protection of the professional making the report.” 5. Previously, the Committee had highlighted that68 states need to ensure that there are effective, child sensitive procedures available to children and their representatives, including the provision of child friendly information, advice, advocacy and access to independent complaints procedures and to the courts with the appropriate legal and other assistance; and national human rights independent institutions should ensure that children have effective remedies for the breaches of their rights, including independent advice, advocacy and complaints procedures69. 6. Where rights are found to have been breached, there should be appropriate reparation, including compensation and, where needed, measures to promote physical and psychological recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration. 7. When incidents of violence take place, the Convention calls for “the establishment of social programmes to provide necessary support for the child and for those who have the care of the child, as well as for other forms of prevention and for identification, reporting, referral, investigation, treatment and follow-up of instances of child maltreatment described heretofore, and, as appropriate, for judicial involvement70”. The Convention further calls for measures designed to “promote physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration of a child victim of any form of neglect, exploitation, or abuse; torture or any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; or armed conflicts71.” “Such recovery and reintegration”, it adds, “shall take place in an environment which fosters the health, self-respect and dignity of the child.” 8. The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, in force in 142 States72, requires States Parties to adapt legal and investigative procedures to the special needs of child victims, including their needs as witnesses, to provide support services, inform them of their rights, their role and the scope, timing and progress of the proceedings, avoid unnecessary delay, allow their views, needs and concerns to be presented and considered, protect their privacy and protect them against intimidation and retaliation.73 It also underscores that the best interest of the child shall be a primary consideration in the treatment of victims in the criminal justice system, and that the persons who work with victims shall receive appropriate training.74 9. Article 6 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict provides that each State Party shall take all necessary legal, administrative and other measures to ensure the effective implementation and enforcement of the protocol. 10. International criminal law also establishes important safeguards in this field. Indeed, according to the Rome Statute, the International Criminal Court is required to take appropriate measures to protect the safety, physical and psychological well-being, dignity and privacy of victims and witnesses; and, to secure their protection, it may conduct 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 CRC/GC/2003/5, paragraph 24 General comment 2, paragraph 13 Article 19 paragraph 2 Article 39 As of January 2011 Art.8(1) Art.8(3) and (4) 25