A/HRC/22/54
I. Introduction
1.
The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 7/13
and 19/37. It describes the activities carried out by the Special Rapporteur since her last
report in March 2012 and provides a thematic study on sexual tourism involving children.
II. Activities
A.
Country visits
2.
Since her previous reports to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/19/63 and Corr.1
and its addenda) in March 2012, the Special Rapporteur undertook visits to Guatemala from
20 to 29 August 2012 and Honduras from 30 August to 7 September 2012. Her country
visit to India, initially scheduled to take place from 16 to 27 April 2012, was postponed at
the request of the Government. The reports on both visits are presented as addenda
(A/HRC/22/54/Add.1 and 2, respectively) to this report.
3.
Since her previous report to the Council, the Special Rapporteur received positive
replies from Kyrgyzstan and Madagascar to her requests to conduct official visits. The
Special Rapporteur is yet to receive replies to her requests for invitations from Cambodia,
Canada, Gambia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Viet Nam and the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela.
B.
1.
Other activities
Conferences, seminars and engagement with civil society
4.
The Special Rapporteur participated in numerous conferences and seminars during
the period under review. In January 2012, she took part in a dialogue between the special
procedures of the Human Rights Council and the African Commission on Human and
Peoples’ Rights in Addis Ababa, organized by the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in cooperation with the African Commission
on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Union Commission. In March 2012, she
opened the General Assembly of the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, held in Geneva. On 12 April, she participated in the International Day for Street
Children, organized by the Consortium for Street Children and held in London. On 10 and
11 May, she attended a conference on strengthening family and alternative care for children
in Africa, held in Dakar and organized by Save the Children. On 29 and 30 May, she
participated in the fifth International Policy Conference on the African Child, on the theme
of intercountry adoption, organized by the African Child Policy Forum and held in Addis
Ababa. In June, she attended an expert workshop aimed at elaborating guiding principles on
international solidarity, organized by OHCHR and held in Geneva. On 6 and 7 August, she
attended a workshop on human rights and technology at Stanford University, United States
of America. From 9 to 11 August, she participated as a lecturer in a summer course on child
rights organized by the University of Moncton, Canada. On 28 September, she participated
to the day of general discussion of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on migrant
children in Geneva. She delivered a keynote speech at the World Congress for the Rights of
Children and Adolescents on 16 October, in San Juan, Argentina. She participated in the
General Assembly of Plan International held in Brighton, United Kingdom, from 23 to 25
October. She participated in the Fourth Regional Workshop on Police and Gendarmerie
Training on Child Protection in Lomé, organized by the United Nations Children’s Fund
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