Summary

In the present report, submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 73/155, the Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material, describes the activities undertaken in relation to the discharge of her mandate since her previous report to the Assembly (A/73/174 and A/73/174/Corr.1).

She also presents a thematic study on safeguards for the protection of the rights of children born from surrogacy arrangements. The report is supplementary to her previous report to the Human Rights Council on surrogacy and sale of children (A/HRC/37/60).

The thematic study contains an analysis of the international legal framework and specific violations to the rights to identity, access to origins and to a family environment. It then provides a review of existing safeguards and subsequently proposes a set of safeguards for the protection of the rights of children born from surrogacy arrangements.