SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 81
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Girls constitute a particularly vulnerable group, and their offending is often closely related to various forms of discrimination and deprivation: girls living in poverty may be easy targets and manipulated by criminal networks for sexual exploitation and drug dealing. Girls are also at risk of being arrested for prostitution or rounded up on the assumption that they are sex workers.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children