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Juan Miguel Petit, Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, said there were no children’s rights without democracy, and democracy without protection to its most vulnerable members made no sense. The only way of preventing trafficking and exploitation was ensuring total transparency to the so-called “sex market”, clear rules to avoid mafias, and all kinds of exploitation, and to ensure creative reintegrative programmes for the victims and all the sex workers that wished to abandon the activity. The main struggle that had to be overcome was a cultural one: only when in the minds and hearts of every person the idea of respect and care of other human beings predominated, would all sleep peacefully knowing that the nightmares of violations of children’s rights was a thing of the past.