SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 12
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The protection of children from violence calls for urgent action. Violence is a harsh reality for millions of children around the world; it remains largely invisible and socially accepted, and it has dramatic and lifelong consequences on children's life and development, carrying with it serious social costs.
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children