FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM 42 • Children are to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development. (Article 32) • Protect children from the illicit use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. (Article 33) • Protect children from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse.(Article 34) • Protect from abduction, sale or traffic in children for any purpose or in any form. (Article 35) • Protect against all other forms of exploitation prejudicial to child’s welfare. (Article 36) • Children are to be kept free from torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Further, no child is to be deprived of his or her liberty unlawfully or arbitrarily.(Article 37) • Promote physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration of a child victim.(Article 39) vii) Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, 2000 The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child purports to extend the reach of the Convention’s provision in relation to sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. The Protocol addresses the weaknesses of the CRC by addressing the sale of children as an international crime and requiring States Parties to criminalize and establish extraterritorial jurisdiction over the relevant acts. Some States and NGOs have argued that certain of its provisions are, in fact, weaker than those of the Convention80 80 Focal Point on Sexual Exploitation of Children, NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Issue No. 5, April 2000,pp 13-14.