SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 60
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Children from disadvantaged communities are attractive targets for organized criminal activities. Through coercion, social pressure or the promise of financial reward, they are at risk of being recruited or manipulated to hold or deliver drugs or weapons, to carry out petty crime, to beg on the streets or to become involved in other exploitative activities.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children