A/HRC/16/56 (c) establish or strengthen national child protection services in order to provide all child victims of sexual exploitation, without discrimination, with the necessary economic and psychosocial support for their full physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration; (d) ensure that these services are accessible, appropriately resourced, comprehensive, child- and gender-sensitive, and reach all children without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of the child’s or his or her parent’s or legal guardian’s race, colour, sex, and social origin and including children with disabilities, from ethnic minorities, indigenous or Aboriginal children, refugee or asylum-seeking and children in domestic service or living on the streets and children displaced by conflict or emergency situations.89 18. The establishment of violence related child sensitive mechanisms is gaining an increasing relevance as part of the process of follow-up to the UN Study on Violence against Children across regions. In the case of South Asia, for instance, governments in the region formed the South Asia Initiative to Eliminate Violence against Children (SAIEVAC) which adopted a strategic plan for 2010-15 with two specific goals addressing this question: (a) By 2015 all States have ensured that all professionals working with or for children (including those working for the State) who suspect that acts of violence have been committed against a child are required by law to report the crime (…) Reporting systems should be safe, well publicized, confidential, accessible and child friendly, allowing children, their representatives and others to report violence against children. (b) By 2015 all States have clearly defined procedures for the referral of child victims of violence and the modalities for inter-agency cooperation (that is between social services, education, health, police, prosecution authorities, voluntary and private agencies) following an assessment of each particular victim, given due weight to his/her views, and when it is in the best interests of the child, also to her/his parents’ or guardians’ views. 89 28 Rio de Janeiro Declaration and Call for Action to Prevent and Stop Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, paras. 46-49.

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