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The Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography is a protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and requires parties to prohibit the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. The Protocol was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000 and entered into force on 18 January 2002.〔United Nations Treaty Collection: (Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography ). Retrieved on 9 December 2008.〕 As of late-September 2015, 171 states are party to the protocol and another nine states have signed but not ratified it.〔 According to the preamble, the protocol is intended to achieve the purposes of certain articles in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, where the rights are defined with the provision that parties should take "appropriate measures" to protect them. Article 1 of the protocol requires parties to protect the rights and interests of child victims of trafficking, child prostitution and child pornography, child labour and especially the worst forms of child labour. The remaining articles in the protocol outline the standards for international law enforcement covering diverse issues such as jurisdictional factors, extradition, mutual assistance in investigations, criminal or extradition proceedings and seizure and confiscation of assets as well. It also obliges parties to pass laws within their own territories against these practices "punishable by appropriate penalties that take into account their grave nature." ==Definitions== The Protocol requires parties to prohibit the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Article 2 defines the prohibition: *Sale of children - Any act or transaction whereby a child is transferred by any person or group of persons to another for remuneration or any other consideration. *Child prostitution Use of a child in sexual activities for remuneration or any other form of consideration. *Child pornography Any representation, by whatever means, of a child engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activities or any representation of the sexual parts of a child for primarily sexual purposes. The Convention generally defines a child as any human being under the age of 18, unless an earlier age of majority is recognized by a country's law. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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