United Nations Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of
Violence against Children in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
A/RES/69/194
police or other authorized bodies and the blocking of access to websites where such
material is available or the deletion of illegal content, and to keep records, in
accordance with the law, and preserve evidence for a period of time and as determined
by law for the purpose of investigation and prosecution.
V.
Offering effective protection to child victims of violence
20. In order to more effectively protect child victims of violence through the
criminal justice process and avoid their secondary victimization, Member States are
urged, as appropriate and while taking into consideration relevant international
human rights instruments, to take appropriate measures:
(a) To ensure that laws clearly define the roles and responsibilities of
government departments and define standards for the actions of other institutions,
services and facilities responsible for the detection of violence against children and
the care and protection of children, in particular in cases of domestic violence;
(b) To ensure that police and other law enforcement agencies have, with
judicial authorization where required by national law, adequate powers to enter
premises and conduct arrests in cases of violence against children and to take
immediate measures to ensure the safety of the children;
(c) To ensure that police, prosecutors, judges and all other relevant
professionals who may be in contact with child victims respond promptly to
incidents of violence against children and that relevant cases are managed
expeditiously and efficiently;
(d) To ensure that criminal justice and other relevant professionals, in
dealing with cases of child victims of violence, pay particular attention to child- and
gender-sensitive approaches, including through the use of modern technologies in
different stages of criminal investigations and criminal proceedings;
(e) To ensure that national standards, procedures and protocols are
developed and implemented among relevant national actors in order to respond with
sensitivity to child victims of violence whose physical or psychological integrity
remains at serious risk and requires their urgent removal from the dangerous
context, and that temporary protection and care are provided in an appropriate place
of safety pending a full determination of the best interests of the child;
(f) To ensure that the police, courts and other competent authorities have the
legal authority to issue and enforce protection measures such as restraining or barring
orders in cases of violence against children, including removal of the perpetrator from
the domicile and prohibiting further contact with the victim and other affected parties
inside and outside the domicile, as well as to impose penalties for breaches of those
orders in accordance with national legislation, and to ensure that, when the child
victim of violence remains under the care and protection of the non-abusive parent,
the parent can safeguard the child and that such protective measures are not
dependent on the initiation of criminal proceedings;
(g) To ensure that a registration system is established for judicial protection
and restraining or barring orders, where such orders are permitted by national law,
so that police and other criminal justice officials can quickly determine whether
such an order is in force;
(h) To ensure that an informal or mediated settlement of cases involving
violence against children takes place only when it is in the best interests of the
child, and does not involve harmful practices, such as forced marriage, taking into
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