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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 26a

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SRSG report
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[The consultation highlighted the following issues:] The critical role of legislation, which constitutes a core dimension of States' accountability for the protection of children from violence and makes a decisive contribution to the abandonment of harmful practices against girls and boys by communities concerned;
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2013
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 123

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SRSG report
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In some communities, certain incidents of violence reflect harmful beliefs towards particularly marginalized girls, including those with disabilities or albinism, who may be accused of witchcraft. As a result, those girls endure stigmatization and are the victims of serious acts of violence, neglect, abandonment, mutilation and murder.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons with disabilities
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 120

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SRSG report
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In 1995, data from many countries showed that girls experienced discrimination from the earliest stages of life, through their childhood and into adulthood. Owing to violence, sexual abuse and exploitation, harmful attitudes and practices, such as female genital mutilation, son preference and child marriage, many girls do not survive into adulthood. They are neglected and their self-esteem undermined, with the risk of initiating a lifelong downward spiral of deprivation and exclusion.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 70

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SRSG report
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Less than 30 per cent of respondents indicate 18 as the minimum age for marriage, with younger ages and different thresholds for boys and girls prevalent in a large number of countries. This is an area to which the Special Representative has paid special attention, including through the consultation on children's protection from harmful practices (see paras. 17-20 above).
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 23

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SRSG report
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Around the world, countless numbers of girls and boys fall victim to harmful practices. Often violent in nature, these practices compromise the development and education of the child, have serious and long-lasting health and psychological consequences, and may result in disability or death. At the same time, positive experiences have led to the successful abandonment of these practices and a lasting commitment by concerned communities to prevent their occurrence and safeguard the protection of children's rights.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2013
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 76

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SRSG report
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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.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Harmful Practices
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Families
  • Girls
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 75

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SRSG report
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In October 2016, in Malawi, the Special Representative promoted the further implementation of the policy agenda launched during her previous visit undertaken in response to the findings of the 2015 violence against children survey. During the follow-up visit, she paid special attention to the prevention and abandonment of harmful practices, helping to focus national attention on the prevalence of child marriage, abuse associated with sexual initiation ceremonies, attacks against children with albinism and other practices compromising the rights of children, particularly girls.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 88

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SRSG report
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Gender influences perceptions and attitudes towards violence, as well as the manner in which violence is perpetrated and experienced. Gender-based violence against girls includes differential access to food and services, domestic or intimate partner violence, sexual exploitation and abuse, deprivation of inheritance or property and harmful practices, such as child marriage, female genital mutilation/cutting and honour killing. Gender-based violence also includes specific types of violence against men and boys, including bullying, fighting, and assault and gun crime.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2013
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 70

Document type
SRSG report
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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 on this question and less than 30 per cent mention positive initiatives. Legislation in the area remains a challenge, with less than half of 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.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2013
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 69

Document type
SRSG report
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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.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 15

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SRSG report
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Throughout the world, countless numbers of girls and boys fall victims to harmful practices, including female genital mutilation or cutting, early and forced marriage, degrading initiation rites, breast ironing, son preference, stoning, honour killings, forced feeding, witchcraft rituals and many other less-known forms of harmful practice. Often violent in nature, these practices compromise the development and education of the child, have serious and long-lasting health and psychological consequences, and may result in disability or death.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 73

Document type
SRSG report
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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.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Families
  • Girls
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 71

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SRSG report
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The First African Girls' Summit on Ending Child Marriage in Africa was held in Lusaka in November 2015. Hosted by the African Union and the Government of Zambia, the Summit gathered Heads of State and Government, ministers responsible for gender and children, United Nations entities, development partners, civil society organizations and religious and traditional leaders, as well as young people who have experienced child marriage. The participants took stock of the progress made to end child marriage across the continent, shared evidence and good practices and renewed their commitment to bringing an end to this and other harmful practices in Africa.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Youth
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 34

Document type
SRSG report
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The First African Girls' Summit on Ending Child Marriage was held in Lusaka in November 2015. Hosted by the African Union and the Government of Zambia, the summit gathered Heads of State and Government, ministers responsible for gender and children, United Nations agencies, development partners, civil society organizations and religious and traditional leaders as well as young people who have experienced child marriage. The participants took stock of the progress made to end child marriage across the continent, shared evidence and good practices and renewed their commitment to end child marriage and other harmful practices in Africa.
Body
SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Youth
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 33

Document type
SRSG report
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Cooperation with African nations and institutions has been further pursued, including through the support of the Special Representative for the African Union campaign to combat child marriage. Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the Special Representative joined the African Union, the African Child Policy Forum and UNICEF in the development of the African Report on Violence against Children. The report reviews regional progress on the study on violence against children and recommends an agenda for action to address persisting challenges. It draws on the research initiatives and household surveys undertaken in the region and it will make a significant contribution in to the Conference on the Status of Children's Rights in Africa, and the African Girls' Summit on Ending Child Marriage, both to be held in late 2015.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 122

Document type
SRSG report
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Girls are often exposed to violence and discrimination owing to their gender, young age and powerlessness. They endure the detrimental impact of physical, mental and sexual violence in the home, at school, in the community, in institutional care and in justice institutions. Child trafficking is a crime that is on the rise and the majority of victims are girls. Despite the criminalization of female genital mutilation/cutting in many parts of the world, every year 3 million girls are at risk of enduring that practice and around 14 million girls are forcibly married, often with much older men, and exposed to high risks of sexual abuse and other forms of violence.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 39

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SRSG report
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The study on harmful practices was released to mark the first anniversary of the International Day of the Girl Child, observed on 11 October 2012. Jointly developed with Plan International, in cooperation with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the African Union, it served as a reference with a sound perspective during the 2013 celebration of the Day of the African Child, devoted to the theme: "Eliminating harmful social and cultural practices affecting children: our collective responsibility". The study will frame additional regional initiatives to support the abandonment of harmful practices, including the consultation organized with the South Asia Initiative to End Violence against Children (SAIEVAC) (an apex body of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)) in September 2013 in Bhutan.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Harmful Practices
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2013
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 20d

Document type
SRSG report
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[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:] Sound data collection and analysis, and cross-country and cross-regional sharing of good practices in legislation and implementation are needed to gain a deeper understanding of, and help to address, the complex dimensions associated with social conventions, beliefs and practices, as well as to inform legislative, administrative, educational, social and other measures to promote the sustained abandonment of harmful practices against children.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Harmful Practices
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 20c

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SRSG report
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[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.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Harmful Practices
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 20b

Document type
SRSG report
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[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:] National legislation should include a clear and comprehensive prohibition of all harmful practices, secure the protection of children from all forms of violence and remove any justification of such practices that may compromise the safeguard of the best interests of the child, including their promotion in the name of honour or tradition; in this regard, the intent to cause harm is not a prerequisite for the definition of violence.
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SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 20a

Document type
SRSG report
Paragraph text
[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:] Legislation plays a crucial role in the social process of abandonment of harmful practices against girls and boys, and is a core dimension of States' accountability for the protection of children from violence; this includes the obligation to ensure harmonization of all legislation, including customary and religious laws, with international human rights standards, and to ensure the establishment of a legal definition of the child in compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Body
SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Harmful Practices
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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