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Right to health and criminalization of same-sex conduct and sexual orientation, sex-work and HIV transmission 2010, para. 76b
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- [The Special Rapporteur calls upon States:] To repeal all laws criminalizing sex work and practices around it, and to establish appropriate regulatory frameworks within which sex workers can enjoy the safe working conditions to which they are entitled. He recommends that States implement programmes and educational initiatives to allow sex workers access to appropriate, quality health services;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 110
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- The Special Representative looks forward to continuing to collaborate closely with Member States and all other stakeholders in the further strengthening of this crucial agenda to help build a world where violence has no place.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. B.
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- [Recommendations to Member States:] Put in place comprehensive programmes that allow identified bonded labourers to be able to access the support that they need to fulfil their right to rehabilitation.
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- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The right to mental health 2017, para. 89
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- There are already promising initiatives in place throughout the world, including in low- and middle-income countries, which challenge the status quo. Creating the space, through strong political leadership and resources, to enable those practices to take shape in communities is a powerful means to promote and advance the changes needed.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Regional and subregional cooperation in promoting a human rights-based approach to combatting trafficking in persons 2010, para. 122
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- [Regional mechanisms should carry out the activities set out in the following paragraphs, which have a specific added value:] Conduct studies and develop recommendations on how to address the challenges posed by the increasing use of communications technologies such as the Internet to channel demand and recruit victims.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Challenges and lessons in combating contemporary forms of slavery 2013, para. 88d
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- [Governments should also ensure that other institutions and stakeholders are appropriately resourced and trained to detect, report and prosecute cases, including by providing:] Providing victims with free legal assistance, compensation, social protection, and long-term strategies for community and labour-market reintegration, including vocational training and job placement services.
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- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 91
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- Companies should review and modify purchasing practices that could have a negative impact on the workplace conditions of their suppliers, including the setting of delivery deadlines that will expose workers to non-voluntary overtime or force suppliers to hire workers for peak periods under worse working conditions or through employment agencies.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 66g
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- [Criteria and indicators should be strengthened in accordance with the benchmarks and indicators for ensuring trafficking-free supply chains proposed by the Special Rapporteur (A/HRC/23/48/Add.4, appendix I) and should include at a minimum the following indicators:] Workers are paid in legal tender and provided written, itemized pay slips or receipts in a language they understand, indicating wage rates, hours worked, total pay and any legally authorized deductions made by the employer;
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Post conflict and post disaster reconstruction and the right to adequate housing 2011, para. 67
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- In post-conflict and post-disaster situations mechanisms should be put in place to monitor violations of the right to adequate housing, including forced evictions. Victims of such violations should be entitled to legal remedies and have access to justice.
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- Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 131
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- Coordination and close cooperation among all restorative justice service providers and other relevant stakeholders should be institutionalized at the national and local levels.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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Corruption and the right to health 2017, para. 87k
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- [The Special Rapporteur urges States to:] Ensure judicial and other forms of review of violations of anti-corruption legislation; and effective remedies where corruption leads to a violation of the right to health;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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Extra-custodial use of force and the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2017, para. 62c
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- [In the present report, the Special Rapporteur examined whether and in which circumstances the extra-custodial use of force by State agents amounts to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The Special Rapporteur’s substantive conclusions can be summarized as follows:] Any extra-custodial use of force that does not pursue a lawful purpose (legality), or that is unnecessary for the achievement of a lawful purpose (necessity), or that inflicts excessive harm compared to the purpose pursued (proportionality) contradicts established international legal principles governing the use of force by law enforcement officials and amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Moreover, failure to take all precautions practically possible in the planning, preparation and conduct of law enforcement operations with a view to avoiding the unnecessary, excessive or otherwise unlawful use of force contravenes the State’s positive obligation to prevent acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment within its jurisdiction;
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- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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Corruption and the right to health 2017, para. 87d
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- [The Special Rapporteur urges States to:] Progressively build resilient health systems, with a special focus on health promotion and primary care, so as to root out the problem of systemic incentives for corruption in health sector;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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Corruption and the right to health 2017, para. 87n
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- [The Special Rapporteur urges States to:] Create awareness among health-care providers that preferential treatment of well-connected individuals is unethical and at odds with the main principles for realization of the right to health;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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Corruption and the right to health 2017, para. 87l
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- [The Special Rapporteur urges States to:] Address petty corruption by health professionals by guaranteeing decent living wages and working conditions, job security and reward for good performance and conduct;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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Corruption and the right to health 2017, para. 87q
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- [The Special Rapporteur urges States to:] Create awareness among health system users of their rights as well as identifying and reporting corrupt acts;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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Corruption and the right to health 2017, para. 87r
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- [The Special Rapporteur urges States to:] Support initiatives that prevent excessive and unnecessary use of diagnostic and treatment interventions and involve users of services in shared decision-making with medical doctors.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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Access to information in international organizations 2017, para. 56
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- International organizations must open themselves up to greater public scrutiny and participation if they are to thrive. Their leaders seem to recognize this, as is evident in their extensive websites, professional (if underresourced) communications offices and the public presence of a great number of officials of intergovernmental organizations in social, broadcast and print media. However, apart from a handful of exceptions noted herein, this recognition on their part does not generally lead to policies that promote and regularize the exercise of the right to information. Why this is so is not difficult to understand: with perhaps the exception of the work of the Security Council and the Secretary-General, and high-level ministerial meetings of Heads of State and Government, intergovernmental organizations generally conduct their day-to-day operations far from the media’s gaze, a situation that changes only in the event of scandal or abuse. The absence of that gaze, and the haze generated by large and difficult to penetrate bureaucracies, means that officials generally do not feel the pressure to release information. This, however, is a mistake.
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- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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Access to information in international organizations 2017, para. 62b
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- [Member States should:] Participate actively in the development of policies that advance everyone’s right to freedom of information;
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- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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The Special Rapporteur's vision of the mandate 2017, para. 83
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- The success of the mandate on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, just as that of any other mandate, cannot be measured in terms of resolutions adopted, reports presented, dialogues held or initiatives promoted.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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The right to mental health 2017, para. 95a
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- [To ensure that health-care services guarantee the right to mental health for all, States should:] Ensure that users are involved in the design, implementation, delivery and evaluation of mental health services, systems and policies;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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The right to mental health 2017, para. 95f
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- [To ensure that health-care services guarantee the right to mental health for all, States should:] Take targeted, concrete measures to radically reduce medical coercion and facilitate the move towards an end to all forced psychiatric treatment and confinement;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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The right to mental health 2017, para. 93c
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- [To ensure that social and underlying determinants for the promotion of mental health for all are addressed, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Take policy and legislative measures on the prevention of violence in all environments where people live, study and work;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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Diversity in humanity, humanity in diversity 2017, para. 62
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- The present report is the first report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and its theme is “diversity in humanity, humanity in diversity”. The phenomenon of violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is both local and global, requiring strong national and international countermeasures to promote respect for sexual and gender diversity under the umbrella of international human rights law. In recognizing that everyone has some form of sexual orientation and gender identity, there is the regrettable reality that some groups and persons are affected by violence and discrimination, precisely because they are viewed as having a sexual orientation and gender identity that is different from a particular societal norm. This is enmeshed in the political, social, cultural and economic setting of each country, which invites a context-specific analysis and understanding of each scenario. While human rights are inherent to all persons without distinction, the situation facing those groups and persons may vary; it is not necessarily homogeneous.
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- Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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The right to mental health 2017, para. 95c
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- [To ensure that health-care services guarantee the right to mental health for all, States should:] Invest in psychosocial services, that are integrated into primary care and community services to empower users and respect their autonomy;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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The right to mental health 2017, para. 95g
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- [To ensure that health-care services guarantee the right to mental health for all, States should:] Seek technical assistance from the WHO QualityRights initiative to assess and improve the quality of mental health care.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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The right to mental health 2017, para. 95e
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- [To ensure that health-care services guarantee the right to mental health for all, States should:] Develop a basic package of appropriate, acceptable (including culturally) and high-quality psychosocial interventions as a core component of universal health coverage;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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The right to mental health 2017, para. 93d
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- [To ensure that social and underlying determinants for the promotion of mental health for all are addressed, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Take immediate action to address harmful gender stereotypes, gender-based violence and access to sexual and reproductive health;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 105
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- In the countdown to 2030, everybody counts. Every world citizen can be an agent of change. And this can inspire others to work to bring about the change we need. Joining hands together, the sum of all forces will be zero: zero violence.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 132
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- The Special Representative looks forward to pursuing her collaboration with Member States and all other stakeholders in the further strengthening of this agenda and the building of a world free 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
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Feb 14, 2020
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