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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 82
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- At the low level of "narco retail", children's exposure to violence may be particularly high owing to clashes over territory, the protection of merchandise, or punishment by their adult masters if they fall short of expectations.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
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- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2015
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2012, para. 30
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- [Reparations for children and the restoration of children’s rights]: Previous experience with reparations for children, either administrative or court-ordered, has been limited. Past and present initiatives provide useful lessons learned and a sense of the challenges ahead. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, for example, was the first ad hoc and hybrid court mandated to order reparations to victims, albeit only of a collective and symbolic nature. The Special Court for Sierra Leone had no mandate to award reparations. Instead, the Government established an administrative reparations programme on the basis of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Resource limitations, however, have put a significant strain on the implementation of this reparations process. In Colombia, in the framework of the Justice and Peace Act, the Supreme Court ordered reparations to child victims of forced recruitment in the case against Freddy Rendón Herrera, alias “El Alemán”, who was accused of unlawful recruitment. The Court considered the needs and experience of each victim, in particular girls, to be different, and decided to focus on individual rehabilitation measures rather than collective material reparations.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
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- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
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- 2012
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 43
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- The element of dialogue with parties to conflict for the preparation of time-bound action plans to address grave child rights violations represents one of the centrepieces of the United Nations agenda for children and armed conflict. In the past several years, numerous parties to conflict in places such as Côte d'Ivoire, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, the Sudan, Uganda and elsewhere, have begun to implement action plans that put in place measures to prevent child recruitment and to identify and release children already associated with their forces. As such practical action to address the issue of children associated with armed forces and groups has gained traction, credibility and momentum, the process is now under way to structure similar dialogue and action plans to address other violations, such as the killing and maiming of children and rape and other forms of sexual violence. For the children, this is where the promises of protection of the international community as expressed in international law and resolutions finally become tangible. As the primary duty bearers for the protection of children, Member States are encouraged to devise ways to enable child protection dialogue with State and non-state parties as necessary.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2010
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- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 32
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- The Central American Integration System initiated the drafting of a regional convention to address sexual violence against children, informed by the cross-regional cooperation process promoted by the Special Representative.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
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- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
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- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 73
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- While some Governments mention statistical information gathered by certain departments, including health, labour, judicial and law enforcement institutions, very few have periodic analytical reports on children's exposure to violence.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2012
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- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 118
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- Sound evidence, supported by reliable data, is crucial to mobilize support to prevent children's stigmatization and victimization, and to strengthen investment in child-sensitive approaches and restorative justice processes.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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- 2014
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- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 77
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- In cases involving family violence or sexual violence, however, restorative processes should only be used when appropriate to prevent risks to the physical and emotional safety of the victim and to secure children's protection.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
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- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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- 2014
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- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 67
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- The Special Representative's upcoming report entitled "ICTs and violence against children: minimizing risks and releasing children's potential" builds upon this process. The sections below highlight key dimensions of that report.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 11
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- These developments have been crucial to support States in national implementation efforts to consolidate children's protection from violence, including in the three priority areas identified by the Special Representative's mandate.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
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- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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- 2012
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- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 3a
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- [The Special Representative undertook significant initiatives to advance progress in the implementation of the recommendations of the study. They include:] Strengthening the human rights foundation of children's freedom from violence;
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 36
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- As the report powerfully illustrates, children are seriously engaged in the post-2015 development process and have a clear vision for the future: they want to enjoy a safe and healthy life, free from all forms of violence.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
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- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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- 2015
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- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 14
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- The goal of universal ratification was also incorporated in the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons and in the Roadmap for Achieving the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2016.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 16a
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- [The agenda of the Special Representative has been guided by four strategic priorities: consolidating progress and mainstreaming implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations study; ensuring that violence against children is given prominence on the global agenda; reinforcing regional processes to enhance the protection of children from violence; and addressing emerging concerns. Significant results have been achieved, including:] Consolidation of the human rights foundation for protecting children from violence through the launch in 2010 of the campaign for universal ratification of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This has led to a steady increase in the number of ratifications to the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, in force in 173 countries, and to the promotion of new international standards, including the Optional Protocol on a communications procedure, in force in 29 States; the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) of the International Labour Organization (ILO); and the United Nations Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Children in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice;
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
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- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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- 2017
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- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 1
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- In the present report, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children reviews key developments promoted at the global, regional and national levels to enhance the protection of children from violence.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2011, para. 26
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- [Children as victims and witnesses]: With the establishment of the International Criminal Court, it is likely that more children will participate as witnesses in legal proceedings against the violators of their rights. The Rome Statute establishing the Court requires that it “take appropriate measures to protect the safety, physical and psychological well-being, dignity and privacy of victims and witnesses”, and “have regard to all relevant factors, including age, gender [...] and health, and the nature of the crime, in particular, but not limited to, where the crime involves sexual or gender-based violence against children.” Victims and witnesses units in charge of short- and long-term protective measures and security arrangements, as well as medical and psychological support, have become an established practice in international and national courts. Special protection measures can be requested to assist a child giving evidence. However, it is not always in the best interest of child witnesses of serious violations of human rights or international humanitarian law to give evidence in a court. In some cases, it may result in grave psychological trauma and illness or renewal of despair, depression or even suicidal tendencies.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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- 2011
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- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 32
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- [Vulnerabilities and risks faced by children who are internally displaced during armed conflict – addressing their rights]: Children are disproportionately affected by internal displacement not only in terms of the numbers of those affected, but also in the risks that they face. It is important to recall the challenges faced by internally displaced children, as articulated by Graça Machel, in her 1996 landmark report to the General Assembly on the impact of armed conflict on children (A/51/306): “During flight from the dangers of conflict, families and children continue to be exposed to multiple physical dangers. They are threatened by sudden attacks, shelling, snipers and landmines, and must often walk for days with only limited quantities of water and food. Under such circumstances, children become acutely undernourished and prone to illness, and they are the first to die. Girls in flight are even more vulnerable than usual to sexual abuse. Children forced to flee on their own to ensure their survival are also at heightened risk. Many abandon home to avoid forced recruitment, only to find that being in flight still places them at risk of recruitment, especially if they have no documentation and travel without their families.”
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2010
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 87
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- In the open debate held with child representatives, the young participants at the ASEAN Children's Forum stressed the urgency for action, especially in relation to the emerging threats posed by online abuse and cyberbullying, and reaffirmed their decisive role as agents of change to bring an end to violence.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
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- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 43
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- With this in mind, the Special Representative will continue to advocate for the development of data collection methodologies and tools to improve national research capacities and monitoring efforts to assess the prevalence of violence against children, and to inform policy and budgetary decisions.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 24a
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- [The agenda of the Special Representative has been guided by four strategic priorities: consolidating progress in and mainstreaming the implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations study; enhancing awareness and consolidating knowledge on violence against children; reinforcing regional processes and national implementation efforts; and addressing emerging concerns. The following significant results have been achieved:] Consolidation of the human rights foundation for protecting children from violence through the launch in 2010 of the campaign for universal ratification of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This has led to a steady increase in the number of ratifications of the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, in force in 173 countries, and to the promotion of new international standards, including the Optional Protocol on a communications procedure; the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) of the International Labour Organization; and the United Nations Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Children in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 69/194;
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 90
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- These important conclusions were endorsed by the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the South Asia Initiative to End Violence against Children, hosted by the Government of India, which reiterated the important role of the Initiative in promoting progress in the preventing violence against children agenda in South Asia.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 70
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- It is important to examine the phenomenon of cyberbullying in the context of how children themselves perceive and use ICTs. This is crucial in promoting the immense benefits of cyberspace while reducing and mitigating the risks of online abuse.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 56
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- The contribution of the ICT industry has also been crucial, including through the development of technology to track sexual abuse material online, measures to facilitate the investigation and prosecution of crimes and investment in children's empowerment and protection.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 23
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- The inclusion of the elimination of violence against children in the 2030 Agenda stems from these converging efforts and results from the sense of urgency generated by the magnitude and impact of the problem and of the evidence proving that there are solutions that work.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 89
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- These important conclusions were endorsed at the fourth ministerial meeting of the South Asia Initiative to End Violence against Children, hosted by the Government of India, which reiterated the important role of the Initiative in promoting progress in the violence against children agenda in South Asia.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 117
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- It is imperative to seize this historic opportunity to place the protection of children from violence at the heart of the policy agenda of every nation and turn children's vision of a world where fear and violence are part of the distant past into reality.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 104
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- Second, strong accountability mechanisms need to be put in place to safeguard children's rights in places of detention, through rigorous oversight, inspection and independent monitoring by competent authorities and institutions to prevent and respond to incidents of violence and to fight impunity.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 68
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- Seven countries in Africa have completed comprehensive surveys on violence against children, namely Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Swaziland, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. These are to be followed by Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Mozambique, Rwanda and Uganda.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 109
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- Talent must be placed at the service of our widely shared child rights values and of the society we all aspire to build. In the countdown to 2030, everybody counts and everybody is needed to overcome the destructive impact of violence and social exclusion.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 16d
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- [The agenda of the Special Representative has been guided by four strategic priorities: consolidating progress and mainstreaming implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations study; ensuring that violence against children is given prominence on the global agenda; reinforcing regional processes to enhance the protection of children from violence; and addressing emerging concerns. Significant results have been achieved, including:] Strengthening national implementation efforts to free children from violence, especially through the adoption and implementation of comprehensive multisectoral national strategies in more than 90 countries, most recently in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Norway and Tunisia; the enactment of national legislation banning all forms of violence against children by more than 50 countries, most recently in Ireland, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Paraguay, Peru, Slovenia and Viet Nam; and the consolidation of data systems, including through national household surveys in Asia and Africa, including in Cambodia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, the Philippines and the United Republic of Tanzania, while efforts are also under way in other countries, such as China;
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 75d
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- [Recent research on this topic has revealed a number of significant and worrying developments:] All of the content depicting children 15 years of age or younger was taken from its original upload location and redistributed via third party websites;
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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