A/HRC/31/20
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 January 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-first session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Annual report of the Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral on Violence against Children
Note by the Secretariat
The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the annual
report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children,
Marta Santos Pais, prepared pursuant to General Assembly resolution 69/157. In the report
the Special Representative reviews key developments and initiatives she has promoted to
accelerate progress in the protection of children from violence. The report builds upon the
decision by the Assembly to renew the mandate of the Special Representative, and upon the
opportunities provided by the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
and the commemoration in 2016 of the tenth anniversary of the submission to the Assembly
of the United Nations study on violence against children.
GE.16-00052(E)
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