FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM 43 Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, 2000 • Prohibits sale of children, child prostitution and pornography.(Article 1) • Sale of children: any act or transaction whereby a child is transferred by any person to another for remuneration or other consideration.(Article 2(a)) • Child prostitution: use of a child in sexual activities for remuneration or other consideration.(Article 2(b)) • Child pornography: any representation of a child engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activities or any representation of the sexual parts of a child for primary sexual purposes.(Article (2(c)) • Criminal or penal law to cover sale of children including offering, delivering or accepting a child for purposes of sexual exploitation, transfer of organs for profit, forced labour.(Article 3) • Protect right of child victims in criminal justice process: in recognizing their special needs, especially as witnesses; providing support services; protecting privacy and identity of child; providing for their safety and that of their family where necessary and avoiding unnecessary delay in granting compensation.(Article 8(1)) • ‘Best interest of the child’ shall be a primary consideration. (Article 8(3)) • Ensure appropriate training for persons working with child victims. (Article 8(4)) Slavery Convention, 1926. • Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attached to the right of ownership are exercised. (Article 2(1)) • The slave trade includes all acts involved in: the capture, acquisition or disposal of a person with intent to reduce him to slavery; the acquisition of a slave with a view to selling or exchanging him; disposal by sale or exchange of a slave acquired with a view to being sold or exchanged and trade and transport of slaves. (Article 2(2) • State parties to prevent and suppress slave trade. (Article 2) • State parties to prevent compulsory or forced labour. (Article 3)