SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 31
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The protection of children from enforced disappearances has gained renewed attention in 2013 with the adoption of the general comment on children and enforced disappearances by the Human Rights Council Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances at its ninety-eighth session, held from 31 October to 9 November 2012 (A/HRC/WGEID/98/1 and Corr.1). The general comment is the fruit of close collaboration between the Working Group and the Special Representative. It recognizes enforced disappearances of children as an extreme form of violence, preventable in all of its forms and unjustifiable under any circumstance.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children