SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 60
Paragraphe
Paragraph text
Public fear of gang violence and youth crime fuels the perception of children as a danger, rather than as being at risk, and mass media stigmatization helps to foster tolerance of institutionalized violence against them. In turn, that generates societal pressure to criminalize children and adolescents, lower minimum ages of criminal responsibility and impose longer prison sentences.
Status juridique
Non-negotiated soft law
Organe
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children