SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 69
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- Governments often lack the resources or capacity to deal with uncontrolled urbanization, or the explosion of informal slums created by migration from poor rural areas to cities. Communities with high concentrations of low-income families tend to have high levels of residential instability, making it difficult for people to develop strong social ties and support networks. Areas lacking basic services, where there is little or no formal institutional presence, become very unsafe. Cities with high levels of economic inequality and endemic poverty are often affected by insecurity, political tension and instability, leading to increased fear and violence, compromising the safety and well-being of children, while deepening their vulnerability and deprivation. That creates a fertile environment for illegal markets, illicit access to weapons and the emergence of criminal gangs.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 2015
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 69
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