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The government Police and Department of Social Welfare.212 has also named the 1st of September to Parents who fail to register or delay the be an annual day for educating the public registration of the birth of a child may be on the importance of birth registration of summoned under the Registration Act and children. [...] ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Ghana has, however, signed but not ratified Child (CRC) and has ratified some of the the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, principal international treaties relating to child prostitution and child pornography, child rights and the prevention of CSEC. [...] Extraterritoriality and cooperation in the area of CSEC In a landmark 2006 case, police agencies in Ghana and the UK collaborated together to secure the extradition of a British national to the UK, charged with the sexual abuse of children during his travels to Ghana; the case resulted in the successful conviction of the British national Kilpatrick to an indefinite period with a minimum of 5 years. [...] the Child and the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child (3) State Parties should take all necessary Prostitution and Child Pornography, measures to implement the Optional ILO Convention 182 concerning the Protocol to the Convention on the Prohibition and Immediate Action Rights of the Child on the Sale of for the Elimination of the Worst Children, Child Prostitution and Forms of Child L. [...] of States Parties’ fulfilment of their obligations to uphold the right of We urge the yet-to-be-appointed Special children to protection from sexual Representative of the Secretary-General exploitation and pay special attention to on Violence against Children, the Special the recommendations in the Rio Call Representative of the Secretary-General for for Action in its examination of reports Childr.