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(c)
establish or strengthen national child protection services in order to provide
all child victims of sexual exploitation, without discrimination, with the necessary
economic and psychosocial support for their full physical and psychological recovery and
social reintegration;
(d)
ensure that these services are accessible, appropriately resourced,
comprehensive, child- and gender-sensitive, and reach all children without discrimination
of any kind, irrespective of the child’s or his or her parent’s or legal guardian’s race, colour,
sex, and social origin and including children with disabilities, from ethnic minorities,
indigenous or Aboriginal children, refugee or asylum-seeking and children in domestic
service or living on the streets and children displaced by conflict or emergency situations.89
18.
The establishment of violence related child sensitive mechanisms is gaining an
increasing relevance as part of the process of follow-up to the UN Study on Violence
against Children across regions. In the case of South Asia, for instance, governments in the
region formed the South Asia Initiative to Eliminate Violence against Children
(SAIEVAC) which adopted a strategic plan for 2010-15 with two specific goals addressing
this question:
(a)
By 2015 all States have ensured that all professionals working with or for
children (including those working for the State) who suspect that acts of violence have been
committed against a child are required by law to report the crime (…) Reporting systems
should be safe, well publicized, confidential, accessible and child friendly, allowing
children, their representatives and others to report violence against children.
(b)
By 2015 all States have clearly defined procedures for the referral of child
victims of violence and the modalities for inter-agency cooperation (that is between social
services, education, health, police, prosecution authorities, voluntary and private agencies)
following an assessment of each particular victim, given due weight to his/her views, and
when it is in the best interests of the child, also to her/his parents’ or guardians’ views.
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Rio de Janeiro Declaration and Call for Action to Prevent and Stop Sexual Exploitation of Children
and Adolescents, paras. 46-49.
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