A/HRC/12/23 page 5 8. On 9 and 10 March 2009 the Special Rapporteur attended the International Girl Child Conference on violence against girls1 in The Hague, Netherlands, a follow-up activity to the United Nations Study on Violence Against Children. In April 2009 the Special Rapporteur became a member of a scientific committee for the preparation of a conference on child mobility to be held in October 2009 and participated in the first meeting of that committee, in Barcelona, organized by Save the Children UK. 9. In May 2009 the Special Rapporteur addressed the International Conference on Effective Strategies for the Prevention of Child Online Pornography, Trafficking and Abuse, held in Manama, Bahrain. She met a number of stakeholders and had an opportunity to gather information for the thematic part of the present report. In May she also participated in a working meeting of the International Bureau for Children’s Rights (IBCR), held in Montreal, on implementation of the Guidelines on Justice in Matters involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime (Economic and Social Council resolution 2005/20). 10. At the end of June 2009 the Special Rapporteur, in accordance with the intention expressed in her first report (A/HRC/9/21, paragraph 45 and passim), and in cooperation with the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, organized a seminar to discuss the working methods of their three mandates and develop practical modalities for cooperation between the three mandate holders and United Nations institutions and agencies, NGOs and other mechanisms working in the human rights field. By way of conclusion, the participants drafted a plan of action setting out the tasks to be accomplished and a programme of work. Those tasks included the creation of a ListServer to facilitate regular exchange of information and the creation of a webpage containing information on the three mandates, NGOs, United Nations agencies and human rights mechanisms dealing with issues pertinent to the three mandates. 3. Communications 11. Between 1 December 2007 and 30 April 2009 the Special Rapporteur sent letters concerning allegations to six Governments and received two responses. A summary of the letters sent and the responses received is contained in addendum 3 to this report (A/HRC/12/23/Add.3). II. CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ON THE INTERNET 12. The Special Rapporteur would like to thank the following countries for responding to the questionnaire: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Monaco, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Samoa, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Suriname, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of). 1 See http://www.girlchildconference.com/.

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