A/HRC/7/8 page 7 The Study process resulted in a number of outputs, including the report presented to the sixty-first session of the General Assembly, the more detailed World Report on Violence against Children, and child-friendly publications. 17. The implementation of the Study recommendations, although still at an early stage in 2007, has already catalysed action in all regions, in particular through participatory process of regional consultations. The 12 main recommendations made by the Study maintain their decisive relevance and should be further pursued as a matter of urgency. The independent expert reaffirmed the need for their implementation together with the accompanying setting-specific recommendations, covering actions needed to eliminate violence against children in the home and family, schools and other educational settings, care and justice systems, the workplace and the community. Such an effective action to end violence against children required high-level leadership, and the creation of a Special Representative on violence against children was seen as the best strategy to ensure effective implementation of the Study, address gaps and fragmentation in the existing response, and maintain sustained attention to violence against children. The primary role of the Special Representative would be to act as a high-profile advocate to promote prevention and elimination of all violence against children, including through encouraging international and regional cooperation. III. REFLECTIONS ON THE MANDATE: OVERVIEW 18. This report will mark the end of the reporting cycle for the current mandate-holder, as his six-year term ends with significant momentum. In view of the review and assessment of the mandate, the Special Rapporteur thought it relevant to recapitulate the different issues he has focused on since his nomination in 2002, in order to present the achievements and accomplishments of the mandate. 19. In his first report, submitted in 2002 (E/CN.4/2002/88), the Special Rapporteur outlined the procedure which he would adopt to investigate information he receives, particularly with respect to individual complaints alleging situations of sale of children and involvement of children in prostitution or pornography. Communications consist of urgent appeals and letters of allegation transmitted to Governments, on the basis of credible and reliable information received, concerning individual cases or country situations. The substantive part of the report provided a brief commentary on two issues - the entry into force on 18 January 2002 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and the request of the Commission on Human Rights, in its resolution 2001/51 on HIV/AIDS, that the Special Rapporteur integrate the protection of HIV-related human rights within his mandate. The Special Rapporteur also considered the link between HIV/AIDS and sexual exploitation of children. 20. In his 2003 report (E/CN.4/2003/79), the Special Rapporteur analysed the legal consequences of the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and particularly the criminalization of child victims and recent national policy and legislative developments to address these concerns. The Special Rapporteur then briefly focused on two other issues, information received that illegal or coercive adoptive practices which have the effect of selling a child were alarmingly prevalent, both internationally and within domestic jurisdictions, and concerns about HIV/AIDS.