SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 123
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Legislation should decriminalize status offences and survival behaviours and include legal safeguards to protect the child's best interests, and the child's rights to freedom from violence and discrimination, to access to justice and to free and safe participation in proceedings throughout the restorative justice process, as well as to legal and other relevant assistance.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children