SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 25
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The consultation identified critical challenges, including the lack of legislation prohibiting harmful practices, inconsistencies in regulations, selective and ill-resourced implementation and compliance, social acceptance of these practices within communities, prejudices among personnel and weak capacity to address children's rights among law enforcement officials, the judiciary, traditional leaders and judges in customary and religious courts.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children