Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography:Article 3

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

Article 3

Geldend

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1.

Each State Party shall ensure that, as a minimum, the following acts and activities are fully covered under its criminal or penal law, whether these offences are committed domestically or transnationally or on an individual or organized basis:

a)

In the context of sale of children as defined in article 2:

(i)

The offering, delivering or accepting, by whatever means, a child for the purpose of:

a.

Sexual exploitation of the child;

b.

Transfer of organs of the child for profit;

c.

Engagement of the child in forced labour;

(ii)

Improperly inducing consent, as an intermediary, for the adoption of a child in violation of applicable international legal instruments on adoption;

b)

Offering, obtaining, procuring or providing a child for child prostitution, as defined in article 2;

c)

Producing, distributing, disseminating, importing, exporting, offering, selling or possessing for the above purposes child pornography as defined in article 2.

2.

Subject to the provisions of a State Party's national law, the same shall apply to an attempt to commit any of these acts and to complicity or participation in any of these acts.

3.

Each State Party shall make these offences punishable by appropriate penalties that take into account their grave nature.

4.

Subject to the provisions of its national law, each State Party shall take measures, where appropriate, to establish the liability of legal persons for offences established in paragraph 1 of the present article. Subject to the legal principles of the State Party, this liability of legal persons may be criminal, civil or administrative.

5.

States Parties shall take all appropriate legal and administrative measures to ensure that all persons involved in the adoption of a child act in conformity with applicable international legal instruments.

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