SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 14
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- Violence leaves long-lasting scars on children's lives, and often has irreversible consequences on their development and well-being and their opportunities to thrive later in life. It also weakens the very foundation of social progress, generating huge costs for society, slowing economic development and eroding nations' human and social capital. According to a recent study on the economic burden resulting from physical, psychological and sexual violence, the global costs could be as high as $7 trillion per year, or more than 4 per cent of global gross domestic product. Yet, with relatively modest investments in proven strategies for violence prevention, a long-lasting difference can be made in protecting children from violence. Violence will become part of the distant past only when the values, goals and targets of the new agenda are translated into tangible national action.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 14
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