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THE GIRL CHILD
UN
Secretary-General's Study on Violence Against Children
Link
to Full UN Study: http://www.crin.org/docs/UN_SG_Vio_Rev.pdf
The
12 Overarching Study Recommendations
1.
Strengthen national and local commitment and action: This refers to
establishing a national focal point on violence against children by the end of
2007, to coordinate actions, and especially to ensure that actions to stop
violence against children are integrated into national planning processes by
2009.
2. Prohibit all violence against children: This refers to legal reforms
including implementation of laws to stop all forms of violence against
children, in all settings, including all corporal punishment, harmful
traditional practices, such as early and forced marriages, female genital
mutilation and so-called honour crimes, sexual violence, and torture and other
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as required by
international treaties.
3. Prioritize prevention: This refers to preventing all forms of violence
against children in all settings by addressing underlying causes, as well as
more immediate risk and protective factors.
4. Promote non-violent values and awareness-raising: This refers to
transforming attitudes that condone or normalize violence against children
including via public information campaigns which promote non-violent values and
protect children in all media coverage.
5. Enhance the capacity of all who work with and for children: This refers to
developing the capacity of all those who work with and for children to improve
prevention, detection and responses.
6. Provide recovery and social reintegration services: This refers providing
accessible, child-sensitive and universal health and social services, including
legal assistance to children and, where appropriate, their families.
7. Ensure participation of children: This refers to States and their partners
actively engaging with children and respecting their views.
8. Create accessible and child-friendly reporting systems and services: This
refers to establishing safe, well-publicized, confidential and accessible
mechanisms for children, their representatives and others to report violence
against children.
9. Ensure accountability and end impunity: This refers to building community
confidence in the justice system by bringing all perpetrators of violence
against children to justice.
10. Address the gender dimension of violence against children: This refers to
the integral role of gender biases in violence against children, and that
States should promote and protect the rights of women and girls and address all
forms of gender-based discrimination as part of a comprehensive
violence-prevention strategy.
11. Develop and implement systematic national data collection and research:
This refers to the urgent need to improve data collection and information
systems by 2009, in the context of a national research agenda and agreed
international indicators, and with particular reference to vulnerable subgroups.
12. Strengthen international commitment: This refers to States ratifying
international treaties and implementing international standards agreed to.
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