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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 79
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- SRSG report
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- As the Study recognizes, progress in violence prevention and elimination is strongly dependent on the effectiveness of efforts designed to strengthen a widely shared culture of non-violence and overcome the social acceptance of violence.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 80
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- Although drafted at a time when the challenges associated with violence in cyberspace could hardly be anticipated, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols thereto provide a robust framework for addressing the challenges associated with online abuse.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 61
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- It does not require the physical presence of the victim; indeed, it can be facilitated by anonymity. A single act online can be observed and disseminated by a large number of people, making it very difficult to assess how the victim will experience or re-experience it.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 60
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- Cyberbullying may be defined as an aggressive, intentional act carried out by an individual or a group using electronic forms of contact against a victim who cannot easily defend himself or herself. It is typically carried out repeatedly and over time, and is often characterized by an imbalance of power.
- Body
- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 89
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- States need to adopt a wide-ranging and integrated approach to prevent violence and to safeguard the rights and best interests of the child in all decisions, including the design, planning, implementation and evaluation of all legal, political, administrative and budgetary measures.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Children
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 85
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- To counter the complex and multifaceted phenomenon of armed violence, it is essential to develop a comprehensive agenda where human rights are safeguarded, social inclusion and human development are promoted and people can live free from fear and violence.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 73
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- Beyond the direct damage it causes, armed violence has a psychological and cultural impact. Weapons are involved in forced recruitment into gangs and criminal networks and in kidnapping, abuse and sexual exploitation, torture, forced displacement and other serious human rights violations.
- Body
- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 132
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- The Special Representative looks forward to pursuing her collaboration with Member States and all other stakeholders in the further strengthening of this agenda and the building of a world free from violence.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 52
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- Violence is equally associated with high costs for society. It diverts billions of dollars from social spending, slows economic development and erodes nations' human and social capital. In a matter of hours, violence can destroy development gains that took years to achieve.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 140
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- The Special Representative looks forward to pursuing her collaboration with Member States and all other stakeholders in the further strengthening of this crucial agenda and the building of a world free from violence.
- Body
- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 8
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- Violence and deprivation are strongly interconnected and pave the way towards high risk of poor health, poor school performance and long-term welfare dependency. But beyond the cost to each individual victim, violence has serious costs for households, communities and national economies.
- Body
- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Poverty
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 106
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- Poor rule of law and weak law enforcement performance facilitate the use of small arms, which in turn is associated with higher levels of homicide and organized crime and paves the way to a culture of impunity and increased levels of violence.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 94
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- Poor rule of law and weak law enforcement performance facilitate the use of small arms, which in turn is associated with higher levels of homicide and organized crime and paves the way to a culture of impunity and increased levels of violence.
- Body
- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 69
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- Sound data and research are urgently needed in this field. Without reliable data, national planning is undermined, effective policymaking and resource mobilization are hampered, and targeted interventions are limited in their ability to address and prevent violence in schools.
- Body
- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 56
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- With high-level participation and expertise from across regions, the meeting provided an excellent platform to present new evidence on interventions to prevent interpersonal violence and reflect on lessons from a wide range of country-level initiatives.
- Body
- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 44
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- The Special Representative was associated with the dissemination of this research, which addresses a priority dimension of her mandate and provides a sound basis to raise awareness of this phenomenon, to promote positive non-violent alternatives and to inform policies and actions for violence prevention and responses.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 87
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- Other countries have also established new remedies in law to enable victims of cyberbullying to initiate civil proceedings against the bully or seek protection orders. These measures include prohibiting communication with a specified person, restricting the use of any means of electronic communication or confiscating, temporarily or permanently, an electronic device used for cyberbullying.
- Body
- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 111
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- As in conflict and post-conflict situations, disarmament and demobilization programmes can be used in communities affected by armed violence to reduce the number of guns in circulation. In such initiatives, guns are surrendered in return for collective or individual rewards, such as building materials, vouchers for groceries and support for development projects. Those efforts are particularly successful when there is a high degree of public awareness, transparency and community involvement.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 53
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- According to the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development, on average more than 500,000 people die violently each year and 44 per cent of all violent deaths are from firearms. Most armed violence occurs in the context of crime or interpersonal conflict and 84 per cent of violent deaths occur in non conflict countries.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 27
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- That in turn has led to strengthened regional commitments on the prevention of, and response to, violence and to the mainstreaming of persisting and emerging concerns in regional processes and initiatives. The inclusion in regional agendas of issues such as violence in early childhood, harmful practices, sexual violence, or the role of information and communications technologies in the fight against violence, are examples of successful cooperation.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 110
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- Law enforcement is essential both to prevent online violence and abuse and to respond to it. However, that is a particularly challenging area, given that physical contact need not occur in order for a crime to be committed. Moreover, much of the evidence involved in those cases is in an ephemeral electronic format that may elude traditional policing methods.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 124
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- Although it is flexible in order to avoid constant updating, legislation needs to convey a clear message of prohibition of all manifestations of violence; it needs to address loopholes associated with emerging concerns, including new forms of online abuse such as grooming, and develop procedures in criminal proceedings to facilitate investigation and prosecution.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 67
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- Responses to the survey also confirm that the adoption of legislation banning the use of violence as a form of punishment or sentencing is gaining momentum, with more than 60 per cent of the responding States mentioning having in place a legal prohibition of inhuman sentencing, including life imprisonment and capital punishment. More than 20 per cent of responding States have a comprehensive ban on corporal punishment in all settings in place and over 50 per cent a partial prohibition.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 65
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- Responses to the survey also confirm that the adoption of legislation banning the use of violence as a form of punishment or sentencing is gaining momentum, with more than 60 per cent of the responding States mentioning having in place a legal prohibition of inhuman sentencing, including life imprisonment and capital punishment. More than 20 per cent of responding States report having a comprehensive ban on corporal punishment in all settings in place and over 50 per cent a partial prohibition.
- Body
- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 22
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- There is limited evidence concerning the extent, impact and risks of violence, and the underlying social norms and attitudes that perpetuate its existence. Too often, data collected are not analysed, disseminated or used to shape policy and implement action, and insights into what works in the areas of prevention and response fail to be taken into consideration when decisions are being taken and resource allocations considered.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 66
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- Collaboration with special procedures of the Human Rights Council has been equally important. The Special Representative participated in their annual meetings in 2009 and 2010, which were particularly useful for information-sharing, for the identification of good practices and the cross-fertilization of experiences, and for the identification of mutually supportive activities for violence prevention and elimination.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 40
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- Collaboration with special procedures of the Human Rights Council has been equally important. The Special Representative's participation, soon after her appointment, in their sixteenth annual meeting in 2009 was particularly useful in promoting the sharing of information, the identification of good practices and the cross-fertilization of experiences, as well as in prompting the consideration of mutually supportive activities for violence prevention and elimination.
- Body
- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 33
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- The Fourth Milestones meeting was devoted to "Boosting global violence prevention" and drew high-level participation and expertise from across regions. Those attending the meeting benefited from hearing about new evidence on effective interventions to prevent interpersonal violence and reflected on lessons from a wide range of country-level initiatives, which provided inspiring examples of data-driven and evidence-based violence prevention in action.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2014, para. 64
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- The Special Representative welcomes alternative strategies, such as mobile courts, to support access to justice in remote areas, to tackle impunity and to provide redress for victims of grave violations in the aftermath of conflict. Mobile courts have been used effectively in several countries such as the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 73
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Paragraph text
- To address the scourge of sexual violence in conflict, Member States are strongly encouraged to prepare and implement, with the support of the United Nations, comprehensive national strategies on sexual violence that address accountability of perpetrators and programmatic response and services for survivors. Donors are urged to ensure that adequate funding is allocated to such initiatives.
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- SRSG: Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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