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(iii)
Promoting public/private partnerships for research into and development
of technologies that will facilitate investigations and the identification of
victims, in order to put an immediate end to exploitation and provide
victims with the assistance they need for a full recovery;
(iv)
Promoting and defending the right to privacy of child victims and child
perpetrators of sexual exploitation, taking into account existing domestic
laws and judicial procedures, in order to protect their identity at all stages
of investigations and judicial procedures; preventing the public
dissemination of information that could help identify them; and ensuring
that the measures taken are appropriate for the children and facilitate
their participation in the entire judicial process;
(v)
Allocating the resources and expertise needed to assist victims and their
families and to care for them until such time as the child has fully
recovered;
(vi)
Putting an end to the circulation of images of child sexual exploitation in
order to spare victims any further humiliation, by maintaining a
worldwide list of Internet sites containing images of sexual abuse of
children, constantly updated and available to States. The list will enable
police services and ISPs to block access to the sites in question;
(d) Broader and more effective social responsibility on the part of the private
sector. In that respect ISPs, mobile telephone operators, Internet cafes, financial
institutions and other stakeholders should:
(i)
Work out and implement voluntary codes of conduct;
(ii)
Support and develop measures for preventing not only the production and
dissemination of child pornography, including visual images and
depictions of children of an exploitative nature, but also the use of the
Internet and other information technologies for online or offline
“grooming” of children;
(iii)
Undertake actions to detect and dismantle the financial mechanisms used
to conclude transactions for the purpose of sexual exploitation of children;
(iv)
Support efforts aimed at eliminating demand and improve assistance to
child victims and their families, in particular by means of telephone
hotlines or Internet services;
(v)
Support the development of education and awareness campaigns for
children, parents, educators, youth associations, and associations that
work with and for children, focusing on the risks of sexual exploitation
and the use of the Internet, mobile telephones and new technologies for
exploitation, and self-protection measures;
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