A/HRC/7/54 page 2 system, the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Human Rights Council, and regional organizations, national institutions and civil society, to promote the wide dissemination of the United Nations study on violence against children, to give support to the first year of effective follow-up to its recommendations and to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session a report on progress made in the initial phase of the follow-up and to anticipate the necessary strategy for follow-up to the implementation of the study. A progress report was presented by the independent expert to the sixty-second session of the General Assembly on 19 October 2007 (A/62/209). Activities of the independent expert 4. Throughout 2007 the independent expert continued his efforts to disseminate the study. A summary of his activities until July 2007 is contained in the progress report (A/62/209). Between July and December 2007 the independent expert presented the findings and recommendations contained in the study in different forums, including: the Conference on International Justice for Children, organized by the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, on 17-18 September; the course for the Spanish Judiciary (Madrid, 19-21 September); and the 33rd edition of the International Conference of the Center Pio Manzú (Rimini, Italy, 27-29 October). In November and December, the independent expert presented his report to the Italian Senate and the Portuguese National Assembly respectively. The independent expert participated in national launches of the study in Amsterdam (7-9 November), Brasilia (3-4 December), and Bucharest (13-15 December). 5. In the same period, the independent expert discussed strategies for follow-up of the study with national authorities in a number of countries, as well as in international forums, including: the Child Protection/Education Regional Meeting organized by the Americas and the Caribbean Regional Office (TACRO) of UNICEF in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on 20-24 August 2007; the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on 12 October in Washington DC; and the ninth EU-NGOs Forum on human rights held in Lisbon, on 6 and 7 December. During the sixty-second session of the General Assembly the expert participated to two side events on the follow-up of the study. Follow-up 6. On 18 December 2007, the General Assembly adopted resolution 62/141, in which it takes note with appreciation of the progress report of the independent expert and requests the Secretary-General “to appoint for a period of three years a Special Representative on violence against children, at the highest possible level …”. The Assembly further recommends that the Special Representative, taking care to avoid duplication with relevant United Nations mechanisms and treaty bodies: “(a) Act as a high-profile and independent global advocate to promote the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against children in all regions …; (b) Promote and support, in cooperation with Member States, the implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations study on violence against children, where appropriate, recommending measures, ways and means at the national, regional and international levels to eliminate violence against children and its causes and to remedy its consequences …; (c) Identify and share good practices to prevent and respond to violence against children, between States and across regions, assist Member States in their efforts to develop more comprehensive and systematic data collection on violence against children …; (d) Work closely