The implementation of the rights of the child during adolescence 2016, para. 66
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The impact of poverty has profound implications during adolescence, sometimes leading to extreme stress and insecurity and to social and political exclusion. Strategies imposed on or adopted by adolescents to address economic hardship can include dropping out of school, being involved in child or forced marriage, becoming involved in sexual exploitation, trafficking, hazardous or exploitative work or work that interferes with education, becoming members of a gang, being recruited into militias and migrating.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Committee on the Rights of the Child
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Poverty
Violence
Person(s) affected
Adolescents
Children
Year
2016
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
CRC General Comment No. 20, The implementation of the rights of the child during adolescence (2016), para. 66.