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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 50 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Education has a unique potential to create a positive environment in which attitudes condoning violence can be changed and non-violent behaviour can be learned. Schools are well placed to break patterns of violence and to provide skills that enable people to communicate, negotiate and support peaceful solutions to conflicts. This is possible at all stages of life, especially early childhood, when initiatives can decisively improve the development of talents and abilities, reduce marginalization and associated risks of violence, and promote access to school and educational achievement. An environment free of violence in all its forms is also instrumental to promoting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, in particular to ensure universal primary education for all and to eliminate gender disparities in education. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 112 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Ensuring sound support and predictable funding has been essential for promoting progress on this strategic agenda and for the effective and independent fulfilment of the Special Representative's mandate. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 24 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | A general legal prohibition of violence must be reinforced and complemented by detailed provisions in specific pieces of legislation, both to address distinct forms of violence, such as sexual abuse and exploitation, bullying, trafficking, corporal punishment or harmful traditional practices, and to tackle violence in different settings, including schools, care and justice institutions, the community and the home. It is critical to develop laws and regulations in all relevant fields to give full meaning to the prohibition, to establish procedures for reporting, referral and investigation, to secure the protection of victims and witnesses, impose effective sanctions to those found responsible, and to fight impunity. Both these approaches, comprehensive and specific, are therefore needed and in fact mutually reinforcing. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 104 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The wide expression of support for the global campaign for the universal ratification of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the progress achieved are evidence of the value of this joint United Nations initiative. The year 2012 can become a milestone in the achievement of universal ratification and the Special Representative will continue to give priority attention to this goal. In view of the General Assembly's adoption of the Optional Protocol on a communications procedure, efforts will also be directed towards its swift signature and entry into force. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 75 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In most cases, information is obtained from broad categories, such as domestic violence, or limited to a few areas, such as crime, with limited disaggregation on the basis of gender, age, social origin or disability. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 99 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | But beyond the cost to each individual victim, violence has serious costs for households, communities and national economies. As noted in a WHO study, meeting the direct costs of health, criminal justice, and social welfare responses to violence diverts many billions of dollars from more constructive societal spending. The much larger indirect costs of violence due to lost productivity and lost investment in education work together to slow economic development, increase socioeconomic inequality, and erode human and social capital. Investing in the prevention of violence is therefore of critical importance, not only as a question of human rights and good governance but also of good economics. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 112 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Investing in the prevention of violence is therefore of critical importance, not only as a question of human rights and good governance, but also of good economics. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 34 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In its report, the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda pays significant attention to the right of freedom from fear and from violence, recognizing this as "the most fundamental human entitlement, and the essential foundation for building peaceful and prosperous societies." It stressed: "To fulfil our vision of promoting sustainable development, we must go beyond the [Millennium Development Goals]. They did not focus enough on reaching the very poorest and most excluded people. They were silent on the devastating effects of conflict and violence on development." | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 84 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In order to ensure that restorative justice processes provide the necessary safeguards and are conducted in a consistent manner, guidelines and standard operating procedures for professionals should be in place. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 132 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The availability of a sufficient number of well-trained professionals in restorative justice should be secured. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 37 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Driven by fear and superstition, incidences of violence are largely met with silence and indifference. They are rarely reported or followed by investigation or prosecution. Overall, there is a pervasive culture of impunity. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 67 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | It is estimated that some 900 million small arms and light weapons are in circulation worldwide: one for every seven persons. Around 75 per cent of the world's guns are in the hands of civilians. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 93 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Data and research are needed to capture the manifestations and incidence of armed violence, to monitor progress and the impact of interventions and to document initiatives that actually work. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 107 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Regulating international arms transfers is equally critical. Important international standards have been adopted with this aim, including the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects and the International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons; the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime; and the Arms Trade Treaty. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 28 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Special Representative remains strongly committed to the further advancement of the global study. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 86 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Other countries have introduced new offences specific to cyberbullying to address its distinct aspects, such as the disclosure of intimate photographs without consent, indirect harassment and malicious impersonation online. For example, in July 2015, New Zealand adopted the Harmful Digital Communications Act, which criminalizes sending messages and posting material online that deliberately cause serious emotional distress or incitement to commit suicide. The new legislation is designed to deter and prevent harmful communications, reduce their impact on victims and establish new systems for quickly resolving complaints and removing damaging online material. It provides a broad range of remedies that a district court can order, including taking down material; publishing a correction or an apology or giving the complainant a right of reply; or releasing the identity of the source of an anonymous communication. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 33 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is global and universal and has the unique potential to bring gains to all parts of the world. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 41 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Ensuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal targets related to combating violence, especially target 16.2, requires effective accountability and monitoring mechanisms at the national, regional and global levels. This is a priority concern for the Special Representative, who has promoted their consideration by the Human Rights Council, especially through its universal periodic review and special procedures; by treaty bodies' monitoring and reporting processes; and by the voluntary national reviews of the high-level political forum on sustainable development. To support the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda, she is also actively engaged in the development of global monitoring indicators and in the promotion of monitoring tools and methodologies. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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| 2016 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 97 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The right to liberty and security is a fundamental human right recognized by international legal standards. This is a topic that the Convention on the Rights of the Child also addresses, including in article 37. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 112 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The conference highlighted significant recommendations, both on deprivation of liberty as a measure of last resort and on national monitoring mechanisms for places of detention. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 33 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Ensuring progress towards achievement of the violence-related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially target 16.2, requires strong leadership, and effective accountability and monitoring mechanisms at the national, regional and global levels. This is a particular concern of the Special Representative, who has promoted consideration of progress towards the violence-related Sustainable Development Goal targets in the reporting and monitoring processes of the treaty bodies and by the Human Rights Council, and in the voluntary national reviews of the high-level political forum on sustainable development. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 43 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | As the countdown for achieving the Millennium Development Goals draws closer, the international community is enhancing efforts to narrow persisting gaps and to shape the future sustainable development agenda. That agenda needs to be informed by the lessons learned in the past years and by the concerns voiced by the peoples of the United Nations. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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| 2014 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Even in countries where harmful practices persist behind deeply entrenched traditions, the legislative process has provided opportunities to involve community and religious leaders, parliamentarians, professional associations, academic institutions and grass-roots organizations, and engage communities concerned. Bridging international standards, policy action and local values, and motivating change from within, legislation has been supported as the fruit of true conviction, gaining traction as a genuine deterrent with preventive effect. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 111 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | But beyond the cost to each individual victim, violence has serious costs for households, communities and national economies. As noted by the World Health Organization, meeting the direct costs of health, criminal justice and social welfare responses to violence diverts many billions of dollars from more constructive societal spending. The much larger indirect costs of violence due to lost productivity and lost investment in education work together to slow economic development, increase socioeconomic inequality and erode human and social capital. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 66 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Cyberbullying is a serious manifestation of online violence and can be associated with different forms of sexual abuse. Cyberbullying may in fact include the posting and dissemination of images and pictures of a sexual nature, such as self-generated sexually explicit material; creating, sharing or forwarding messages or images of a sexual nature (sexting); or promoting online intimidation and harassment (cyberstalking), including with a view to obtaining sexual favours from the victim or coercing the victim into performing sexual acts (sextortion). | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 61 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | These important provisions have been further complemented by significant international standards on human rights in the administration of justice. Moreover, the Economic and Social Council adopted basic principles on the use of restorative justice, encouraging the development of mediation, conciliation, conferencing and sentencing circles as effective alternatives to formal criminal justice mechanisms. Through its general comments, the Committee on the Rights of the Child has also promoted restorative justice programmes. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 33 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Fourth Milestones meeting was devoted to "Boosting global violence prevention" and drew high-level participation and expertise from across regions. Those attending the meeting benefited from hearing about new evidence on effective interventions to prevent interpersonal violence and reflected on lessons from a wide range of country-level initiatives, which provided inspiring examples of data-driven and evidence-based violence prevention in action. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 40 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Collaboration with special procedures of the Human Rights Council has been equally important. The Special Representative's participation, soon after her appointment, in their sixteenth annual meeting in 2009 was particularly useful in promoting the sharing of information, the identification of good practices and the cross-fertilization of experiences, as well as in prompting the consideration of mutually supportive activities for violence prevention and elimination. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 52 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Special Representative's participation, in March 2010, in the meeting of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights provided a valuable occasion to discuss ways of benefiting from the experience and advice of these strategic partners in the development of the Human Rights Council's report. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 66 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Collaboration with special procedures of the Human Rights Council has been equally important. The Special Representative participated in their annual meetings in 2009 and 2010, which were particularly useful for information-sharing, for the identification of good practices and the cross-fertilization of experiences, and for the identification of mutually supportive activities for violence prevention and elimination. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
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