A/HRC/31/58 (f) Ensure that national legislation does not criminalize child victims of sexual abuse and exploitation and ensure that children are not placed on sex offender registers; (g) Ensure easy access to child-sensitive complaint and reporting mechanisms through comprehensive and adequately resourced child protection systems in order to facilitate the detection, investigation and prosecution of offenders; (h) Ensure and strengthen capacity-building and specialist training of relevant professionals, ranging from social services and education professionals to law enforcement personnel and magistrates, to effectively detect, investigate, prosecute and sanction offenders; (i) Ensure that children who are required to participate in criminal justice proceedings are given appropriate support and counselling to assist them at all stages of proceedings and that they have access to a child-sensitive legal system to facilitate the prosecution and conviction of offenders and avoid their revictimization; (j) Establish and extend prevention programmes, both offline and online, targeting potential offenders and providing them with support and follow-up; (k) Conduct research to map all the levels of the demand factor, namely the immediate, intermediary and underlying levels, in order to provide comprehensive and evidence-based data that will feed into comprehensive strategies to eradicate the sexual exploitation of children; (l) Conduct research on offenders, with a particular focus on online offenders and female offenders, and on the effectiveness and success of prevention and rehabilitation programmes; (m) Involve and empower child victims throughout legal proceedings and in the development of compensation measures as part of comprehensive care, recovery and reintegration programmes; (n) Address the underlying causes of the demand factor through comprehensive awareness-raising and education of children, society at large and professionals working with children on gender equality, non-discrimination and the rights of the child. 2. At the international level 83. The Special Rapporteur invites the international community to reinforce the coordinated global response by: (a) Reinforcing the comprehensive and global legal framework preventing and criminalizing the sexual exploitation of children with explicit guidance on penalties; (b) Strengthening international cooperation as is required by the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography in key areas, by: (i) Sharing and updating information related to child victims and offenders to effectively investigate and prosecute perpetrators and criminal networks responsible for the sexual exploitation of children; (ii) Supporting alliances such as the Virtual Global Taskforce and encouraging increased membership or the development of similar collaborations for the effective cooperation in the investigation and prosecution by law enforcement forces of criminal networks and offenders; 21