SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 98
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The National Assembly of Costa Rica, supported by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UNICEF, in 2009 convened an important regional meeting on the role of parliamentarians in the prevention and elimination of violence against children. The meeting called upon national parliaments to promote the organization of a national debate to monitor and advance follow-up to the study's recommendations, the adoption of law reform to explicitly ban all forms of violence against children, and the allocation of adequate resources in support of child-related public policies.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children