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In the present report, submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 74/133, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, Najat Maalla M’jid, provides an overview of major initiatives and developments that sustain and scale up efforts to safeguard children’s freedom from violence and advance implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. She also outlines the immediate and longer-term impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on children’s protection and wellbeing, as well as the role of children as agents of change in…
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The present report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children is submitted to the General Assembly in accordance with resolution 64/146. Najat Maalla M’jid assumed the position of Special Representative on 1 July 2019. In this her first report to the Assembly as Special Representative, she notes the momentum created by the review, at the high-level political forum on sustainable development in 2019, of the targets in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to end violence against children (especially target 16.2 of the Sustainable…
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In the present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 37/20, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights provides an overview of the legal framework and practical measures to empower children with disabilities. She focuses on empowerment through participation and inclusive education, and analyses how to foster the personal and public decision-making of children with disabilities, their inclusion in the community and their protection from abuse, exploitation and violence. The High Commissioner concludes the report with a number of recommendations to…
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In her report, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities provides an overview of the activities undertaken in 2018 and a thematic study on disability-specific forms of deprivation of liberty, in the light of the standards set forth in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The report reviews disability-specific forms of detention, their underlying causes and adverse consequences, and proposes alternative rights-based models. The report contains recommendations to assist States to develop and implement reforms to end deprivation of liberty…
In his report to the UN Human Rights Council (A/HRC/28/68), the Special Rapporteur, Juan Mendez, focuses on children deprived of their liberty from the perspective of the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The Special Rapporteur explores the international legal framework and standards protecting children deprived of their liberty from being subjected to torture or other ill-treatment and from experiencing developmentally harmful and torturous conditions of confinement. He also examines specific statutes and standards applying to prevent…
The vulnerability of children varies as a result of many, interrelated factors, including age, gender, family care, poverty, disability, violence and food security among others. The AIDS epidemic increases children’s vulnerability in many tragic ways. A child’s vulnerability increases as a direct result of his or her own positive HIV status or because of the HIV infection, illness and death of a parent that results in loss of care, nurturing, income and other basic needs. Most often, the direct affects of AIDS create vulnerability both for the child and for the household. In high…
The HIV and AIDS Hope Initiative is World Vision’s effort to increase and intensify responses to the AIDS pandemic in all of the more than 90 countries where World Vision operates. The overall goal of the Hope Initiative is to reduce the global impact of AIDS on children, their families and communities through the enhancement and expansion of World Vision programs and partnerships focused on HIV prevention, care, and advocacy.
This booklet summarizes the Hope Initiative strategies for the nine key areas of HIV and AIDS response on which World Vision focuses. It is intended to…
Responsibility for assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs) lies first and foremost with the national authorities. In situations of armed conflict, combatants (including non-state armed groups) and occupying powers also have legal responsibilities for IDPs under international humanitarian and human rights law.
In situations where the authorities are either unable or unwilling to meet their responsibility, international humanitarian and development organizations have the right to offer their services to alleviate suffering and support national efforts. …
Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch in Central America, a consortium of NGOs issued a communiqué calling for all responses to ensure children were not separated from family or community and that unaccompanied children be reintegrated in their family, their community or substitute homes in their country. The signatories asserted temporary placement of children in families abroad as well as intercountry adoption were not adequate assistance measures for children in the event of a natural disaster. Evacuating children or placing them temporarily in families abroad is…