SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 103
Paragraphe
Paragraph text
Uncertainty associated with displacement, reduced options to escape hardship and pressing needs to secure survival and generate family income are some important factors behind violence, psychosocial distress, sexual abuse and the economic exploitation of children. Weakened protection in times of disaster, such as floods or earthquakes, may increase children's vulnerability to abandonment, sale or trafficking and place adolescents at increased risk of recruitment into gang activity and urban violence.
Status juridique
Non-negotiated soft law
Organe
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children