A/HRC/31/58 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 7/13 and 25/6. It describes the activities carried out by the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography since her last report was submitted to the Human Rights Council in March 2015. It also contains a thematic study on tackling the demand for the sexual exploitation of children. II. Activities A. Country visits 2. The Special Rapporteur undertook an official visit to Armenia from 12 to 18 May 2015 and one to Japan from 19 to 26 October 2015.1 3. The Governments of Bulgaria and Georgia responded positively to the invitation requests sent by the Special Rapporteur to undertake an official visit to their countries. She also sent requests to visit Ghana, Kenya and Senegal. The Special Rapporteur reiterated her requests to visit the Dominican Republic, India, Mozambique, Thailand and Viet Nam and encourages the authorities to respond positively to her requests to conduct a visit to their countries. B. Other activities 1. Conferences, meetings and engagement with stakeholders 4. On 15 January 2015, the Special Rapporteur was a speaker at a conference on working together against child trafficking, organized by the Nidos Foundation and the European Network of Guardianship Institutions in the Hague, the Netherlands. On 27 April, she attended a seminar on trafficking, with a special focus on children, organized by the Vatican and the Government of Sweden, held in Vatican City. 5. The Special Rapporteur gave a presentation on 16 June at the International Summit on the Legal Needs of Street Youth, organized by the American Bar Association in London. On 18 and 19 June, she participated in the cross-regional meeting on the protection of children from sexual violence that was organized in Strasbourg, France, by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children and the Council of Europe. The Special Rapporteur also spoke on 6 July at the opening of the fourty-sixth annual study session of the International Institute of Human Rights, on children and international human rights law, held in Strasbourg. 6. On 15 October, the Special Rapporteur presented her report, containing a study on the care, recovery and reintegration of child victims of sale and sexual exploitation, to the General Assembly at its seventieth session.2 7. On 23 November, she participated in a high-level symposium on national and intercountry adoption organized in Monte Carlo, Monaco. 1 2 See A/HRC/31/58/Add.1 and Add.2. A/70/222. 3