The right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence 2011, para. 16
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- The cost of violence against children. The human, social and economic costs of denying children's rights to protection are enormous and unacceptable. Direct costs may include medical care, legal and social welfare services and alternative care. Indirect costs may include possible lasting injury or disability, psychological costs or other impacts on a victim's quality of life, disruption or discontinuation of education, and productivity losses in the future life of the child. They also include costs associated with the criminal justice system as a result of crimes committed by children who have experienced violence. The social costs arising from a demographic imbalance due to the discriminatory elimination of girls before birth are high and have potential implications for increased violence against girls including abduction, early and forced marriage, trafficking for sexual purposes and sexual violence.
- 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)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- CRC General Comment No. 13, The right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence (2011), para. 16.
- Paragraph number
- 16
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