Sexual Exploitation: III World Congress Outcome Document

Summary: The Rio Declaration and Call for Action which is the outcome document of the World Congress III against the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents. The Call for Action provides a comprehensive framework for the protection of children and adolescents from all forms of sexual exploitation. It also includes an Adolescent Declaration to End Sexual Exploitation.

The III Congress

To mobilize key actors worldwide once again to protect children more effectively from sexual exploitation, the government of Brazil, ECPAT, UNICEF and the NGO Group took on the task of organising the third Congress that was held on November 25-28 2008, in Rio de Janeiro.

The governments of Sweden and Japan  provided support and advice for this third Congress that was to build on the progress made in Stockholm and Yokohama. The Agenda for Action that resulted from the previous Congresses has become an essential tool in mobilizing action to protect children from sexual exploitation.

More information is available on the website of the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child here: http://www.childrightsnet.org/

Further information about the Congress:

• Draft Outcome Document  This document was the first draft of the Outcome Document of the World Congress III against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents. It was based on inputs gathered through regional and thematic preparatory meetings that have been organised around the world, in advance of the World Congress III to be held in Rio de Janeiro on 25-29 November 2008.
• World Congress closes on unfinished business [28 November 2008]

• Children and Young People Close the Congress [28 November 2008]
• 28 November 2008: Update from World Congress 3
• 27 November 2008: Update from World Congress 2
• 26 November 2008: Update from World Congress 1