SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 9a
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- [The following strategic dimensions of this important agenda in which significant progress has been made are highlighted in the report:] Consolidating the human rights foundation for protecting children from violence through the launch in 2010 of the campaign for universal ratification of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This has led to a steady increase in the number of ratifications to the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, in force in 171 countries, and to the promotion of new international standards, including the Optional Protocol on a communications procedure which, by the end of 2015, was in force in 22 countries; the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Children in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 69/194;
- 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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 9a
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