GENERAL COMMENT No. 13 (2011), Article 19: The right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence
- Document number
- 2707
- Date
- 2011
- Title
- GENERAL COMMENT No. 13 (2011), Article 19: The right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence
- Author/publisher
- United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, United Nations (UN)
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- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations, Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
- Keywords
- Committee on the Rights of the Child, Fifty-sixth session Geneva, 17 January - 4 February 2011
- Summary
- Rationale: The Committee on the Rights of the Child (hereinafter: the Committee) issues the present general comment on Article 19 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (hereinafter: the Convention), since the extent and intensity of violence exerted on children is alarming. Therefore, measures to end violence have to be massively strengthened and expanded in order to effectively put an end to these practices which jeopardize children's development and societies' non-violent potentials for conflict resolution
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