Follow up to the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
Recommended measures (5)
36. While noting with appreciation the State party’s efforts to implement the Committee’s recommendations from 2005 on the State party’s report under the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (09378), the Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Bring its Penal Code fully into line with the Optional Protocol, including by ensuring that it explicitly prohibits the sale of children.
(b) Apply sanctions to the purchase of sexual services from children and for activities involving child pornography that take into account the grave nature of those offences.
(c) Adopt specific legislation on the obligations of Internet service providers in relation to child pornography on the Internet.
(d) Abolish the requirement of double criminality regarding extraterritorial jurisdiction for offences related to the Optional Protocol.
(e) Make the necessary legislative amendments to ensure that children who are victims of sexual exploitation abroad and in the context of travel and tourism can also bring claims under the Tort Liability Act.