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(k)
Promote action to empower educators and parents to accompany and
support children in acquiring skills to live in the digital environment;
(l)
Provide adequate and continuous training for law enforcement
personnel, members of the judiciary and professionals working with and for children
with the aim to enhance their technical skills;
(m) Ensure accessible, safe, confidential, age-appropriate, child-friendly and
effective reporting channels, such as child helplines, for reporting violations of
children’s rights in relation to digital media and ICT; this should include the
provision of safe, child-friendly and confidential points of contact for children to
report self-generated sexual content to the relevant authority;
(n)
Strengthen coordination between all actors and sectors in the protection
system ensuring referral of cases and effective support to children victims; this should
include the development of a child protection strategy that ensures that the protection
and care of victims is paramount in investigations and that sets out good practices in
the handling of victims;
(o)
Empower and provide adequate resources to national institutions
responsible for guaranteeing human rights to allow them to play a key role in
monitoring child online sexual exploitation; such institutions should have a specific
mandate to address the rights of children in relation to digital media and ICT, and be
able to receive, investigate and address complaints by children in a child-sensitive
manner, ensure the privacy and protection of victims, and undertake monitoring,
follow-up and verification activities for child victims;
(p)
Conduct action-oriented research into the perpetrators of online abuse,
the ways in which children are victimized online, and the factors that make
individuals more vulnerable, with a view to prevent abuse and strengthen professional
responses to victims in terms of investigation, rescue, recovery and reintegration.
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