Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 54
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Special Procedures' report
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Civil society organizations underlined that boys and men should be addressed in the treaty as both perpetrators and potential allies for change. In addition, the correlation of violence against women with violence against children, whether boys being witnesses to domestic violence against their mothers or children of all gender identities being subjected to corporal punishment, needed to be made clear and solutions needed to be part of the treaty.
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Special Procedures: Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences