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On ensuring the implementation of the Presidential assignment

 
 
 

Following the meeting of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, held on 12 November 2012, President Vladimir Putin assigned the government to work with the State Duma to adopt appropriate measures for the ratification in 2013 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography, and the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse.

Deadline – 1 April 2013

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin instructed the Interior Ministry, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Justice to ensure the implementation of the Presidential assignments of 6 December 2012, and submit the drafts of the relevant federal laws to the Government by 12 February 2013. The draft report to the President on this issue must be submitted to the Government by 20 March 2013.

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The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography was adopted on 25 May 2000 at the 54th session of the United Nations General Assembly and entered into effect on 18 January 2002.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified by Russia on 13 June 1990.

The Optional Protocol sets international standards in combating the sale of children, child prostitution, and child pornography.

The Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse was open for signature on 25 October 2007 and entered into effect on 1 July 2010.

The Convention is open for signature by member-states of the Council of Europe (CoE) as well as the states, which are not CoE members, but participated in the development of the Convention.

The Convention sets international standards in combating the sale of children, child prostitution, and child pornography.

The Convention has been signed by 43 nations, of which only 18 have ratified it. Among the leading CoE member-states that signed the Convention in 2007-2008, but have yet to ratify it, are Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and Sweden.

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