Search Tips
trié par
30 Listé sur un total de 125 Entités
7 columns hidden
Titre | Date ajouter | Modèle | Document | Paragraph text | Organe | Type de document | Thematics | Thèmes | Personnes concernées | Année |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 46 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | Education has a unique potential to generate an environment where attitudes condoning violence can be changed and non-violent behaviour can be learned. Schools are well placed to break patterns of violence and provide skills to communicate, to negotiate and support peaceful solutions to conflicts. However, this potential is in marked contrast with the daily reality of millions of children. Within and around educational settings, both girls and boys continue to be exposed to violence, including verbal abuse, intimidation, physical aggression, and in some cases sexual abuse. At times they are also victims of gang violence and assault. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2012 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 108 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | Violence is a frequent dimension of children's lives. It occurs in various forms and contexts and has serious and long-lasting consequences on their well-being and development. Prevention and elimination efforts need to address those dynamics and invest in the social inclusion of girls and boys at special risk, for whom the multiple dimensions of deprivation go hand in hand with a cumulative exposure to violence. Enhancing families' capacity to protect and care for their children and preventing child abandonment and placement in residential care remain crucial dimensions of that process. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2012 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 121 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | Violence is a frequent dimension in children's lives. It occurs in various forms and contexts and has serious and long-lasting consequences on their well-being and development. Prevention and elimination efforts need to address these dynamics and invest in the social inclusion of girls and boys at special risk, for whom the multiple dimensions of deprivation go hand in hand with a cumulative exposure to violence. Enhancing families' capacity to protect and care for their children, and preventing child abandonment and placement in residential care remain crucial dimensions of this process. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2013 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 31b | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | [The urgency of safeguarding children's freedom from violence has certainly not diminished and the magnitude of this phenomenon remains high and deeply distressing. Significant United Nations reports illustrate this well:] In the past few years there has been a marked increase in trafficking in children. From 2007 to 2010, numbers rose from 20 to 27 per cent; in some regions more than 60 per cent of detected victims are children, as indicated in the UNODC 2012 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons and girls are particularly affected. Child trafficking is a serious form of violence; but it is also a source of incidents of abuse, as children are enslaved into prostitution, sold into marriage, coerced to work in plantations or deep-sea fishing, forced to beg on the street, or recruited by criminal networks. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2014 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 31c | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | [The urgency of safeguarding children's freedom from violence has certainly not diminished and the magnitude of this phenomenon remains high and deeply distressing. Significant United Nations reports illustrate this well:] Exploitation through labour remains particularly worrying. As stressed by the International Labour Organization in the 2013 report Marking progress against child labour - Global estimates and trends 2000-2012, 168 million children worldwide are involved in exploitative work; almost half of them are of primary school age and more than 11 million are girls involved in domestic work, often exposed to excessive working hours and hazardous tasks, as well as to violence, abuse and exploitation. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2014 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 31d | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | [The urgency of safeguarding children's freedom from violence has certainly not diminished and the magnitude of this phenomenon remains high and deeply distressing. Significant United Nations reports illustrate this well:] Early and forced marriage affects countless children around the world. Girls are particularly at risk. According to the 2014 UNICEF publication Ending Child Marriage: Progress and Prospects, more than 700 million women worldwide were married before their eighteenth birthday; and more than one third entered into union before the age of 15. Girls living in rural areas or belonging to the most impoverished families face the highest risk. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2014 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 24b | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | [The agenda of the Special Representative has been guided by four strategic priorities: consolidating progress in and mainstreaming the implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations study; enhancing awareness and consolidating knowledge on violence against children; reinforcing regional processes and national implementation efforts; and addressing emerging concerns. The following significant results have been achieved:] Enhanced awareness and consolidated knowledge to prevent and respond to violence against children through international expert consultations, the development of research and the release of thematic studies on strategic topics such as violence in schools and in the justice system, restorative justice for children, the rights of girls in the criminal justice system, and child-sensitive counselling and reporting and complaint mechanisms, as well as reports on the protection of children from harmful practices and from armed violence and organized crime and on opportunities and risks associated with information and communications technologies. Child-friendly materials were also produced to inform and empower children about their right to freedom from violence, most recently in Braille; | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2016 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 73 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | Developed by the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum, the Model Law has the potential to inform action to end child marriage. This is an area where incremental progress is being achieved, for example with recent legislative developments in the Gambia and the United Republic of Tanzania. In 2015, Malawi adopted the Marriage, Divorce and Family Relations Act, which raised the minimum age of marriage to 18 years. The social mobilization around that process and the important partnership developed with traditional leaders helped to raise awareness of the new law and achieve important results, including a landmark initiative led by a female traditional chief that resulted in the initial annulment of 330 child marriages in a single district and since then has broken up 850 child marriages and banned the sexual initiation of girls. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2016 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 21 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | This is no time for complacency. Around the world, millions of girls and boys of all ages continue to be exposed to appalling levels of violence, in their neighbourhoods, in their schools, in institutions aimed at their care and protection, and also within the home. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2017 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 30 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | This is no time for complacency. Around the world, millions of girls and boys of all ages continue to be exposed to appalling levels of violence, in their neighbourhoods, in schools, in institutions aimed at their care and protection and within the home. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2016 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 70 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | Data and research are indispensable if we are to expose the hidden face of violence and address its root causes; understand perceptions and attitudes regarding this phenomenon, including among girls and boys of various ages and social backgrounds; identify children at greater risk and effectively support them; and assess the economic costs of violence and the social gains that can be achieved through steady investment in prevention. These are areas where consolidated partnerships and the acceleration of efforts will remain of the essence. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2011 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 136 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the relevance of that area, the Special Representative welcomes the call by the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly for a global study on children deprived of their liberty, and remains fully committed to contributing to its development. The global study will provide a strategic opportunity to prevent girls' deprivation of liberty, and associated risks of stigmatization and violence; safeguard girls' rights as victims, witnesses and alleged perpetrators; and promote their long-lasting recovery and reintegration. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2015 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 96 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | Young victims are often the target of these practices. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, between 2011 and 2012 there was a 70 per cent increase in child sexual abuse material focused on girls under the age of 10 years, and abuse material involving toddlers or babies is not uncommon. Once online, child abuse images can circulate indefinitely, alongside the risk of perpetuating victims' harm. The circulation of such images contributes to the hypersexualization of children and in turn fuels the demand for sexual abuse material. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2014 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 26 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | This is an area where urgent action is required. Existing data sets on children provide a basis to build upon, but they need to be integrated beyond sectors and individual disciplines, promoting a holistic consideration of the child. Gaps in child protection areas need to be addressed and monitoring tools and indicators expanded, including to consider boys and girls of all ages and in all settings, and to address those at greatest risk. Moreover, those efforts need to incorporate children's views and perspectives, and capture their experience, and dynamic and evolving free agency. This is crucial to understand the hidden face of violence and effectively address its root causes. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2010 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 40 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | The Special Representative participated in key policy discussions to promote the consideration of violence against children as a cross-cutting concern on the United Nations agenda. This included cooperation with UNODC on violence against children in the justice system, during the thematic debate held by the Human Rights Council, and with UN-Women on gender-based violence and the legal protection of girls from violence and harmful practices, during the Commission on the Status of Women and in the lead-up to the International Day of the Girl Child. Strategic cooperation was also pursued with United Nations partners to prevent and minimize the impact of armed and gang violence on children, including through policies that help to reduce the availability of and access to small arms. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2012 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 39 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | Violence against girls and boys is also a concern echoed by the Secretary-General in his report mentioned in paragraph 3 above. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2015 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 64 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | For vulnerable groups of children, including girls, children with disabilities, children belonging to minority or indigenous groups, and children affected by HIV and AIDS, these efforts must be redoubled. Such children face particular challenges in gaining access to schooling and in remaining in school. They are more likely to be subjected to violence or to be disregarded when they seek advice about or report incidents of violence. As a result, they may end up choosing not to report violence for fear of drawing attention to themselves. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2011 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 14 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | The results from those surveys press for urgent action. They expose serious levels of violence shaping children's lives and they highlight the gap between the large number of children exposed to violence and the very limited number of victims seeking help and the even smaller number benefiting from the services that are needed. For example, across seven of the countries surveyed, more than 25 per cent of girls and 10 per cent of boys had endured sexual violence, but less than 10 per cent of victims had received support from social services. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2015 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 76 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | There has been progress on these issues in Malawi, including the adoption in 2015 of the Marriage, Divorce and Family Relations Act, which increased the minimum age of marriage to 18 years; the Government's commitment, in November 2016, to align the Constitution with that legislation and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child; and the crucial role played by traditional leaders in mobilizing their communities to prevent the early and forced marriage of girls and to ensure their return to school to pursue their education. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2017 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 100 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | Children on the move, including refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and victims of trafficking or smuggling may be placed in detention centres or cells in military bases or confined in restricted areas in airports, harbour facilities and islands. They may also be subject to involuntary transportation in vehicles, aeroplanes, boats or other vessels. Girls may be deprived of liberty supposedly for their own protection, including when they are at risk of honour crimes, trafficking or other forms of violence and, while detained, exposed to the risk?of?further?abuse and exploitation. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2016 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 20c | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | [The outcomes of the expert consultation are set out in a thematic report, to be launched during the commemoration of the 2012 International Day of the Girl Child, and include the following overarching recommendations:] Law reform is a long-term and ongoing process, necessary to recognize and safeguard children's rights, to fill protection gaps and address emerging practices and manifestations of violence; it needs to be supported by prevention and implementation efforts, including birth registration, awareness-raising, education and training, and mobilization of communities, including religious and local leaders and children, to promote dialogue and positive cultural values, enhance understanding about the detrimental impact of certain practices and support commitment by those concerned to the lasting abandonment of harmful attitudes and behaviour. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2012 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 85 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | The Special Representative hosted high-level policy discussions to promote the consideration of violence against children as a cross-cutting concern within the United Nations agenda, including on extreme poverty and violence, during the Commission on Social Development; on gender-based violence and girls' victimization on the occasion of the Commission on the Status of Women; and on violence against children with disabilities during the General Assembly and the meeting of States Parties of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Strategic cooperation was also promoted with United Nations partners to curb violence in the community and minimize the impact of situations of armed and gang violence on children, including through policies that help to reduce availability of and access to small arms. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2012 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 14 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | Children engaged in domestic work, most of them girls, are also highly vulnerable to violence. According to the most recent figures published by the International Labour Organization (ILO), at least 52.6 million people are employed as domestic workers across the world, 15.5 million of whom are children. Most of them work as housekeepers, nannies or caregivers, and many are also migrants who hope to support their families through their remittances. Often isolated, with no formal protection structure, child domestic workers are highly vulnerable to labour exploitation, working long hours without rest, being denied holidays or deprived of wages, and enduring serious manifestations of violence and abuse. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2014 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 29 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | Cross-fertilization of knowledge and national experiences has been an important factor of progress. For this reason, in 2014, Swaziland in cooperation with UNICEF and the Together for Girls Partnership, hosted an important meeting at which 20 countries involved in this process gathered to share evidence and reflect on ways of translating national data and research into a multisectoral policy agenda to protect children from violence. The Special Representative will continue to support this process and will join the launch of national data surveys to support the consolidation of the policy agenda and accelerate progress in violence prevention and response. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2014 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 9 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | As highlighted by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) report "Hidden in Plain Sight", the World Health Organization Global status report on violence prevention 2014, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Global Study on Homicide 2013 and its Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2014, the risk of violence remains widespread and deeply concerning. Almost a billion children between the ages of 2 and 14 are subject to physical punishment by their caregivers; 84 million girls are victims of emotional, physical, emotional or sexual violence at the hands of their husbands or partners; 8 per cent of global homicides affect children under the age of 15; and child trafficking continues to increase, in some regions reaching more than 60 per cent of detected victims, most of whom are girls. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2015 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 75c | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | [Recent research on this topic has revealed a number of significant and worrying developments:] Of the content depicting children 15 years of age or younger, 93.1 per cent featured girls; | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2016 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 84 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | Poverty, vulnerability and economic hardship are factors of stress in the community and in the home, generating a higher incidence of violence, including domestic violence. As families struggle to meet their basic needs, children may be pressed to drop out from school to contribute to household income; girls may be placed at risk of involvement in hazardous economic activities, including domestic service, begging and sexual exploitation; or forced to marry, the risk of getting married before the age of 18 being three times higher among poor girls. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2012 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 14b | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | [At the consultation, in which governmental experts and representatives of United Nations agencies, international and regional organizations, human rights bodies, academia and civil society participated, a set of practical recommendations to assist States and other actors in the development of a violence-free justice system for children was drawn up. Those recommendations, included in a joint report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/21/25), address the following issues:] Protecting children from all forms of violence within the juvenile justice system. National laws, policies and procedures concerning juvenile justice should be brought into full compliance with relevant international standards, and juvenile justice reforms should pursue a child- and gender-sensitive approach and be guided by child rights principles and safeguards, including (i) the recognition of the deprivation of children's liberty as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate time; (ii) the separation of children from adults and of girls from boys in a child-sensitive environment; (iii) the explicit prohibition of and effective protection of children from violence, including as a form of punishment, treatment or sentencing; (iv) the legal provision of safe and child-sensitive counselling, reporting and complaints mechanisms to prevent and respond to incidents of violence; and (v) the establishment of independent oversight and monitoring mechanisms and accountability systems for the inspection of places of detention and the prompt investigation of incidents of violence against children. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2012 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 69 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | Another significant gap revealed by the survey is the dearth of data on laws, policies and advocacy on the gender dimensions of violence and the legal protection of girls: 40 per cent of the respondents provide no information in that regard, and less than 30 per cent mention positive initiatives. Legislation remains a challenge, with less than half of the Governments indicating the enactment of a legal ban on harmful practices, which may fully or only partially cover female genital mutilation/cutting, child or forced marriage, witchcraft rituals, honour killings and other practices. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2012 | ||
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 26 | 19 août 2019 | Paragraph | Sexual violence against children, and particularly against girls, has been a topic which has received increased attention. Building upon a national study on violence against children undertaken in Swaziland in 2007 and supported by the Clinton Global Initiative, UNICEF has joined WHO, the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Development Fund for Women, together with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a strong partnership to promote similar research in other countries and provide support for the strengthening of an environment protecting girls against sexual violence. This is a significant initiative that the Special Representative will continue to follow closely and which is expected to lead to important results in violence prevention and protection from violence. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children | SRSG report |
|
| 2010 |