SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 63
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Many factors underlie violence in the community, including poverty, discrimination, social exclusion, lack of access to social services, deficiencies in governance and the presence of organized crime. That pattern is aggravated by drug and alcohol abuse, easy access to arms, unregulated urban growth and the participation of young people in illicit markets.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children