SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 73
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Beyond the direct damage it causes, armed violence has a psychological and cultural impact. Weapons are involved in forced recruitment into gangs and criminal networks and in kidnapping, abuse and sexual exploitation, torture, forced displacement and other serious human rights violations.
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children