SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 30
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- A growing number of initiatives promoted around the world offer new opportunities to break the invisibility of violence and mobilize action and support towards its prevention and elimination. National surveys on violence against children conducted over the recent past constitute an important reference in this regard, particularly when - as was for instance the case in the United Republic of Tanzania and in the United States of America - these surveys were based on wide-scale interviews with children and young people. In both cases, the surveys provided a comprehensive, sound and frank picture of the incidence of physical, emotional and sexual violence against children, revealing its pervasive nature and also its frequent practice by people children know and trust - in the community, in the school and within the home. In both cases there was also recognition of the exposure of children to different and cumulative forms of violence, and to the serious and long-lasting trauma and distress.
- 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
- Youth
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 30
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