A/HRC/40/51 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 7/13 and 34/16. It contains information on the activities of the Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material since her previous report (A/HRC/37/60). It also contains a thematic study on the sale and sexual exploitation of children in the context of sports. II. Activities A. Country visits 2. The Special Rapporteur undertook a visit to Ireland from 14 to 21 May 2018 (A/HRC/40/51/Add.2). She also conducted a visit to Malaysia, from 24 September to 1 October 2018 (A/HRC/40/51/Add.3). The Special Rapporteur thanks both Governments for their cooperation before, during and after the visits. 3. The Special Rapporteur will also present to the Council at its fortieth session the report on her visit to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (A/HRC/40/51/Add.1), which took place from 8 to 16 November 2017. 4. The Government of Bulgaria has agreed to a visit by the Special Rapporteur from 1 to 8 April 2019. The Special Rapporteur thanks the Government of Bulgaria for agreeing to the visit and looks forward to a constructive dialogue in preparation for the mission. She also sent requests for country visits to the Governments of the Gambia, Ghana, Haiti, India and Kenya. B. Other activities Conferences and engagement with stakeholders 1 1. 5. On 18 September 2018, the Special Rapporteur addressed the Council of Europe Group of Experts on responses to violence against children in Strasbourg, France. 6. On 9 October, the Special Rapporteur presented a report on combating and preventing the sale and sexual exploitation of children through the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals from a child rights perspective to the General Assembly (A/73/174 and Corr.1). On 11 October, she organized an expert meeting in New York to follow up on the recommendations of her report. 7. On 18 October, she presented her thematic report on Sustainable Development Goals to the fifth meeting of the Council of Europe Ad hoc Committee on the Rights of the Child, held in Strasbourg. 8. On 18 November, the Special Rapporteur participated in the meeting of the WePROTECT Global Alliance Advisory Board. On 19 and 20 November, she attended the Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities forum on child dignity online, held in Abu Dhabi. 9. From 27 to 29 November, the Special Rapporteur participated in the first regional dialogue in Latin America and the Caribbean, entitled “On the road to equality: 30 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child”, organized by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Santiago de Chile. 10. In preparation of the present thematic report, the Special Rapporteur attended the launch of the Council of Europe Start to Talk campaign, held in the Netherlands on 6 November. 1 2 For a description of the activities of the Special Rapporteur undertaken between January and July 2018, see A/73/174 and Corr.1.