Joint report with SRSG Violence against Children on child-sensitive complaint mechanisms 2011, para. 87
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Children in extreme poverty may not only be hard to reach due to geographic remoteness or social exclusion, but also often suffer from a deep lack of self-esteem. Victims of bullying, humiliation and abuse, they feel powerless to speak up, and fear not being believed when reporting incidents of violence, or being blamed for having caused them in the first place.
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Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material