A/HRC/12/23 page 25 (e) (f) Improved prevention, which calls for: (i) Evaluating the prevention programmes undertaken to date, with a view to measuring their effect; (ii) Organizing education and awareness campaigns for children, parents, teachers, youth associations and other persons working with and for children, with a view to increasing their knowledge about the risk of sexual exploitation associated with use of the Internet, mobile telephones and other new technologies. Such campaigns should devote particular attention to how children can protect themselves, receive help and report online child pornography and sexual exploitation; (iii) Establishing partnerships with the media to develop audio-visual programmes for children, families and the public, aimed at increasing their awareness of and keeping them informed about the risks associated with Internet use by children; (iv) Make technologies accessible, affordable and user-friendly to parents, guardians and educators, especially filters to block images of children that could be impropriate or harmful; Increased participation by children, which requires: (i) Keeping children informed and teaching them how to protect themselves, seek help and report sites and “grooming”; (ii) Promoting the participation of children and young people at all stages of the development, follow-up to and evaluation of policies and programmes; in campaigns; and through assistance programmes by and for children, aimed at increasing awareness of and preventing online child pornography; (iii) Considering the establishment of a fund for initiatives on the part of children and young people in this area; (g) Increased international cooperation because the absence of borders between countries on the Internet requires effective and efficient cooperation to protect children everywhere, which calls for: (i) Harmonizing practices and procedures in the areas of information, access to and exchange of information, storing of computer data, regulation of the public-private partnership between services responsible for applying the law and ISPs, and training and content methods; (ii) Developing interdisciplinary and multi-country working groups; (iii) Establishing an international mechanism for reporting Internet-related offences;

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