A/71/206 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 25 July 2016 Original: English Seventy-first session Item 65 (a) of the provisional agenda* Promotion and protection of the rights of children: promotion and protection of the rights of children Annual report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children Summary Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 70/137, the present report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children provides an overview of major initiatives and developments to sustain and scale up efforts to safeguard children’s freedom from violence. The report builds on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its target to end all forms of violence against children, and on the commemoration in 2016 of the tenth anniversary of the submission to the Assembly of the United Nations study on violence against children. __________________ * A/71/150. 16-12906 (E) 050816 *1612906*

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