A/HRC/7/8 page 18 provide shelter, food, health care, psychosocial counselling, training and interpretation, and their services are provided free of charge for persons in need of assistance. In Slovakia, special assistance for mistreated and abused children who had to be isolated from their family was available in the Children’s Homes. Support for children as well as adults in a crisis situation were also provided through the Crisis Centres, run by local authorities and NGOs. Cyprus and Luxembourg stated that cases of minors who were victims of commercial sexual exploitation were rare due in part to their small number, but that victims of these abuses were treated as children in need of care and protection, as no specific programmes designed for this target group had been established. In Monaco and in Zimbabwe, several NGOs for the defence of children’s rights and welfare were active in the prevention of commercial sexual exploitation and the trafficking of minors. Oman replied that it had not established such programmes or shelters, because the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography were not perceptible phenomena there. However, it did take steps to prevent it, by enacting domestic laws and statutes and by acceding to the relevant international treaties. Finally, Poland had introduced a number of measures aimed at crime prevention regarding sexual abuse and human trafficking, in which several ministries, administrative bodies and NGOs were involved, in line with programmes of the European Union. 60. The same questionnaire was sent to non-governmental and international organizations working in the field and they have also highlighted the following examples of programmes in the following regions and countries. C. Good practices: examples of projects developed by NGOs and civil society 61. Terre des Hommes has been running programmes and facilities for children at risk and victims of sexual exploitation and trafficking in Cambodia and in India. 62. The Terre des Hommes facility and programme in Kolkata, India, operates together with the NGO Sanlaap. This programme is designed for children or minors who are victims of sexual commercial exploitation and trafficking, and also includes a few children who are abandoned and children whom the court considers to be in danger if they return to their families, as well as infants/children of victims. The rehabilitation programme follows a holistic approach, aiming at covering all aspects of care as an integral unit. It operates like a hospital or a care facility requiring multiple partners, including counsellors, home mothers, social workers, case managers and legal officers. The focus is on developing low-cost “compassionate human resources”, rather than high-cost physical infrastructure or technical human resources, because the partner NGOs believe that healing and protection, whether in the family or the institution, is a matter of personal human contact. In the shelter and throughout the programme, primary consideration is given to the significant psychological and protection needs of trafficked and abused girls, many of whom have severe emotional disturbances, social problems, suicide risks and mental and physical challenges. This project is intended to be a model of the functional application of “child rights” and “child protection” and aims at bringing shelter-based and community-based care-giving systems2 up to internationally accepted minimum standards of care; establishing an 2 “Guidelines for the operation of care facilities for victims of violence against women and children: rationale, basic procedures and requirements for capacity building”, developed by Terre des hommes.