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The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography was first created in 1990 by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 1990/68. The Economic and Social Council, in its decision 1990/240, confirmed the mandate. Here you can find the report of the Special rapporteur.

www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.1994.84.En?Opendocument

The reports (E/CN.4/1991/51), (E/CN.4/1992/55 and Add.1), (E/CN.4/1993/67) were repectively presented at the 47,48,49 sessions.

47th session : www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.1991.51. En?Opendocument

48th session : www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.1992.55. En?Opendocument

49th session: www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.1993.67. En?Opendocument

50th session: www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.1994.84. En?Opendocument

Here the introduction of the fourth report for the 50th session.

E/CN.4/1994/84 14 January 1994

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Fiftieth session Item 22 of the provisional agenda

RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

Sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography Report submitted by Mr. Vitit Muntarbhorn, Special Rapporteur, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/82

CONTENTS

Paragraphs Introduction 1 - 29 A. General comments 3 - 24 B. Methodology 25 - 29 SALE OF CHILDREN 30 - 131 A. Adoption for commercial purposes 33 - 63 B. Exploitation of child labour 64 - 99 C. Organ transplantation 100 - 113 D. Other forms of sale 114 - 131 II. CHILD PROSTITUTION III. CHILD PORNOGRAPHY 172 - 193 IV. COMMUNICATIONS 194 - 220 V. RECOMMENDATIONS 221 - 261 A. General 221 - 228 B. Short-term measures 229 - 247 C. Medium- and long-term measures 248 - 261 Annex: List of States which replied to the communication on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography circulated by the Special Rapporteur in 1993

Introduction

1. The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography was first created in 1990 by the Commission on Human Rights for one year in its resolution 1990/68. The Economic and Social Council, in its decision 1990/240, confirmed the mandate and extended it to cover a period of two years. Accordingly, the Special Rapporteur submitted his annual reports (E/CN.4/1991/51 and E/CN.4/1992/55 and Add.1) to the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-seventh and forty-eighth sessions. In its resolution 1992/76, the Commission renewed the mandate for a further period of three years, which was approved by the Economic and Social Council in its decision 1992/244. The Special Rapporteur presented a further report to the Commission at its forty-ninth session (E/CN.4/1993/67). The present report covers the period from December 1992 to the beginning of December 1993.

2. During the period under consideration the Special Rapporteur carried out one country visit to Nepal at the kind invitation of the Government of Nepal. The findings of the mission are reflected in the addendum to the present report (E/CN.4/1994/84/Add.1). He had hoped to visit one other country during the year in another region of the world and at another level of economic development, to illustrate the fact that the issues under the mandate concern both developing and developed countries. However, it was not possible to organize the other visit owing to constraints of time and resources. It is hoped that in 1994 other visits will be possible, particularly to North America and Africa.

Previous CRC - Basic Reference Document items

• 10/01/1994: Report on the fifth session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
• 08/07/1993: Report of the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
• 05/03/1993: Report on the third session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (11- 29 January 1993)
• 01/01/1993: Derechos del niño
• 19/10/1992: Report on the second session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (28 September - 9 October 1992)

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