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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 14
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- The goal of universal ratification was also incorporated in the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons and in the Roadmap for Achieving the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2016.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 125
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- The accountability of States is equally important to set a clear regulatory framework for the activities of corporations and to support businesses to meet their responsibilities in the safeguard of children's rights, throughout their operations, at home and abroad.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 8
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- Trafficking in persons continues to increase, and in some regions more than 60 per cent of victims are children. Countless millions of children are involved in exploitative work and slavery-like practices. In developing countries, one in every three girls is married before age 18 and one in nine is married before age 15, and children below 15 years represent 8 per cent of victims of homicides globally.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 101
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- Children may also make purchases online, enter agreements, sign up for premium services or make other forms of payments without the involvement of their parents or caregivers. In addition, children may be exposed to online fraud and viruses, and other risks that may threaten their privacy and safety and damage their computers and devices.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 68
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- Travelling faster and communicating better were the aspirations behind many of the greatest human inventions: the wheel, paper, the printing press, the steam engine, the telephone, the airplane, the Internet. Today, ICTs offer endless opportunities to both adults and children to connect to knowledge and people. At the same time, as with previous inventions, the technology is often associated with some degree of fear or apprehension, because of real or imagined inherent risks.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Education
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 13
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- Critical attention was paid to violence in work settings. This is an area where significant challenges prevail, with countless children coerced into working in plantations or fishing in the deep sea; engaged in hazardous activities; sold into marriage, victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation; or recruited by criminal gangs or drug dealers. All these situations compromise the protection of children's rights.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 60
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- Children from disadvantaged communities are attractive targets for organized criminal activities. Through coercion, social pressure or the promise of financial reward, they are at risk of being recruited or manipulated to hold or deliver drugs or weapons, to carry out petty crime, to beg on the streets or to become involved in other exploitative activities.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 41
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- Collaboration with ILO was further pursued, helping to highlight incidents of violence endured by children in settings where they work, including in the framework of the implementation of the Roadmap for Achieving the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2016 and the commemoration of the World Day against Child Labour.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 59
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- The Special Representative developed a fruitful collaboration with ILO, particularly with regard to the protection of children from violence in the workplace and in other labour-related activities. Regular meetings have been held to support the implementation of the study's recommendations, including through advocacy, the consolidation of data and research, the promotion of standard-setting activities, as well as the development of practical tools to support Member States in their efforts.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 37
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- Achieving progress in this area is vital. Every year, millions of children are trafficked, enslaved through sexual exploitation, arranged marriage, illegal adoption or forced labour. In its most recent global report, ILO recognizes that 115 million children are victims of hazardous work; and the sale and sexual exploitation of children also figure prominently among the worst forms of child labour.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 91
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- In July 2016, at an event hosted by the Government of Bhutan, the South Asia Initiative to End Violence against Children and ILO launched Alliance 8.7: working together to end child labour and modern slavery, to further reinforce the collective efforts to move the 2030 Agenda forward in South Asia. The Initiative's regional action plan to prevent and eliminate child labour and a review of the engagement of the faith and interfaith actors in ending violence against children in South Asia were also launched on that occasion.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 95
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- Tourism development and information technologies are also enhancing children's vulnerability to sexual abuse, including by making remote areas more accessible to tourists. The increased use of live video streaming of sexual abuse of children is another emerging trend, allowing families with cheap Internet access and computer equipment provided by travelling offenders to make money by streaming video footage of their very young children. There is also a rise in cases of children lured with money or gifts by preying offenders who entice children to share photos of themselves.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 75c
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- [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;
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 109
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- The accountability of States is equally important to set a clear regulatory framework for the activities of corporations and to support businesses to meet their responsibilities in safeguarding children's rights throughout their operations, both at home and abroad. The many opportunities offered by regulation, self-regulation, incentives and public-private partnerships should be further explored, including with a view to attracting new sectors of activity, as well as small and medium-size companies. One example of such a regulatory framework is the Philippines Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009 (see box below).
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 71
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- Geographic and socioeconomic considerations also determine the availability of technology, which in turn has an impact on children's online experience and vulnerability.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 102
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- Another emerging concern is the association of children and adolescents with cybercrime. This may include young men's engagement in computer-related financial fraud, or the use of ICTs to facilitate illicit behaviour that may result in violence against themselves or others. For example, in the context of youth gangs, sexual images exchanged on mobile phones may become "currency" for gang members, and mobile phones can be used to exert control over others and the commission of violent acts, including sexual violence. With the increasing engagement of organized criminal groups in cybercrime activities, there is a real risk that young people may become drawn into online criminal activities, driven by bravado, attracted by promises of economic gain, or compelled by threats or coercion.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 15
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- As highlighted by the Special Representative at the third Global Conference on Child Labour, held in October 2013 in Brazil, such forms of violence are not inevitable; they can be prevented and effectively addressed. Promoting the ratification and implementation of ILO standards, including ILO Convention No. 189 (2011) concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers, remains a crucial step in this regard. Together with the promotion of the outcomes of the third Global Conference and the Roadmap for Achieving the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2016, these standards will remain a core component of the Special Representative's global advocacy agenda.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 14
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- 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.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 77
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- This capacity-building programme addressed international human rights and labour standards on children's protection from violence in the framework of the SAIEVAC workplan for 2010-2015. With the participation of government officials of South Asia, representatives from civil society and workers' and employers' organizations, the meeting shared experiences of model interventions for addressing child labour and enhancing protection from violence, and explored opportunities to promote synergies among monitoring, reporting and planning mechanisms at the regional and national levels. Discussions also focused on the preparation of a South Asia child labour strategy for the third Global Conference on Child Labour, to be held, as mentioned above, in Brazil in October 2013.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 28
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- Children engaged in domestic work, most of them girls, are highly vulnerable to violence. According to ILO estimates contained in the publication Ending Child Labour in Domestic Work and Protecting Young Workers for Abusive Working Conditions, there may be as many as 100 million domestic workers worldwide, 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, through having to work long hours without rest, being denied holidays or being deprived of wages, as well as to serious manifestations of violence and abuse.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 15
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- Since the launch of the campaign, the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography received 26 additional ratifications and is currently in force in 163 countries. Of the 30 States that are not yet parties to the Protocol, the majority made formal commitments to ratification in the framework of the universal periodic review process of the Human Rights Council, the Committee on the Rights of the Child or other human rights mechanisms; and the large majority have ratified the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementary to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization, which address similar areas of concern.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 44
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- The global survey also builds upon the significant analytical reviews conducted at the regional level, including by the League of Arab States, SAIEVAC, MERCOSUR and Central American countries. It draws upon United Nations and international monitoring processes, including the universal periodic review of the Human Rights Council, reporting to the Committee on the Rights of the Child and other treaty bodies, and the follow-up to the World Congresses against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents and the Roadmap for Achieving the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2016, adopted by The Hague Global Child Labour Conference in 2010.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 17
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- At least 18 States have made formal commitments to the ratification of the Protocol, including within the framework of the universal periodic review of the Human Rights Council and before the Committee on the Rights of the Child or human rights mandate-holders. Of those that are not yet parties, 40 per cent have ratified the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and 90 per cent have ratified ILO Convention No. 182, on the Worst Forms of Child Labour; these address similar areas of concern.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 40
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- Another area of common concern is the development of new ILO standards to ensure decent work for domestic workers. The Special Representative continues to support this process, which opens avenues for strengthening children's protection from exploitation in domestic service and from any form of violence associated with it. Child domestic workers, especially girls, are highly vulnerable to violence. Working in private households, often far from their own homes and with little or no protection or social support, they are exposed to excessive working hours, hazardous tasks, social stigma and discrimination, physical and emotional violence, as well as sexual abuse.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 39
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- The Special Representative strengthened further her collaboration with ILO in the protection of children from violence in the workplace and in other labour-related activities. In May 2010, she participated in The Hague Global Child Labour Conference (see paragraph 32 above), which marked the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of ILO Convention No. 182, and adopted a road map for achieving their elimination by 2016 (see box below). The Conference provided a high-level forum for the Special Representative's advocacy in favour of the protection of children from violence and abuse and in support of the global campaign for the universal ratification of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 32
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- Advancing the aims of the campaign has been a constant concern in the Special Representative's global advocacy and field missions. The campaign has received wide support from Member States, United Nations agencies and civil society organizations. The goal of universal ratification was incorporated in the policy agenda of high-level United Nations initiatives, including the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons and the Roadmap for Achieving the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2016, adopted on 11 May 2010 at The Hague Global Child Labour Conference. Moreover, the launch of the campaign has been followed by the adherence to the Protocol by an increasing number of States. Efforts to advance progress in this field will be pursued in 2011.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 31
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- The campaign for the universal ratification of the Optional Protocols was launched with the Secretary-General, at Headquarters, and is pursued in close cooperation with UNICEF, OHCHR and the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. In the light of her mandate, during this two-year campaign, the Special Representative places a special focus on achieving global adherence to the Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. As at 15 December 2010, the Protocol was in force in 142 countries, and more than 80 per cent of those who have not yet ratified it are parties to the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) of the International Labour Organization (ILO), a treaty with legal obligations to fight the sale of children, trafficking and sexual exploitation of children. Several of the remaining countries have also formally committed to ratification, including in the context of the universal periodic review of the Human Rights Council.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 62
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- The Special Representative strongly supports the development of new ILO standards to ensure decent work for domestic workers. They open avenues for improving the protection of children from exploitation in domestic service and from any form of violence associated therewith. Child domestic workers, especially girls, are highly vulnerable to violence. Working in private households, often behind closed doors and away from their own home with little or no protection or social support, they are exposed to excessive working hours, hazardous tasks, social stigma and discrimination, and physical and emotional violence, as well as sexual abuse. The Special Representative remains committed to supporting this important standard-setting process and the adoption of binding provisions for the protection of children and young domestic workers.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 61
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- As highlighted by the Special Representative in her address, violence and child labour are closely interrelated. Violence in the home, in schools and in institutions, is a factor that pushes children into child labour, particularly its worst forms; violence is also a means to coerce children to work, and to keep them in exploitation and servitude. At the same time, violence and child labour can be prevented and effectively addressed, through the development of national action plans, the adoption of sound legislation and the strengthening of data and research. These actions figure prominently in the Road map, which also constitutes a key instrument in the elimination of violence against children in work-related situations.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 60
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- In May 2010, the Special Representative participated in the Global Conference on Child Labour held in The Hague, which marked the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of ILO Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, and it adopted a road map for achieving their elimination by 2016. The Conference provided a high-level forum for the Special Representative's advocacy in favour of the universal ratification of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and of the protection of children from violence and abuse. Those dimensions were also given strong attention in the Road map.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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