SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 81
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Guided by article 19 of the Convention, which calls for the protection of children from all forms of violence, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, in its general comment No. 13 (2011) on the right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence, addressed psychological bullying and hazing by adults or other children, including via information and communications technologies such as mobile phones and the Internet, i.e., cyberbullying (para. 21).
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children