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.
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* A/71/150.
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