Update: The Secretary-General's Study on Violence against Children 19

4 August 2006 - Update: The Secretary-General's Study on Violence against Children 19

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- UN Study Launch Announced [event]

- HARMFUL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES: Read our special CRINMAIL Edition [news]

- RESOURCES: Latest Resources added to the Violence Website

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UN Study Launch Announced [event]

Date: 9 October 2006

Location: New York, UN Headquarters

The Secretary-General's Study on Violence Against Children will be presented to the 3rd Committee of the General Assembly, by the Independent Expert, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro.

The event will be attended by UN Agencies, civil society organisations and children and young people. As well as the actual presentation by Pinheiro to the Third Committee of the General Assembly, other events will be taking place in NY to mark the launch of the report, such as a round table discussion, a press conference, an exhibition of children's contributions from around the world, etc.

Further information will be made available as plans get finalised - keep checking our webiste on children and violence for updates.

For background information to the UN Stduy, click here.

For more information, contact:
UN Secretary General's Study on Violence Against Children - Secretariat
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.violencestudy.org

 

Visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=9633

 

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HARMFUL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES: Read our special CRINMAIL Edition

 

The launch of the Secretary-General Study on Violence Against Children is scheduled to take place on October ninth at the General Assembly in New York. Professor Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the Independent Expert who is leading the Study, has indicated that the report will recommend prohibition of all forms of harmful traditional practices. Although there is sometimes disagreement as to what constitutes such practices, the Study lists them as follows:

  • female genital mutilation (cutting of a girls’ sexual parts);
  • child sexual abuse, including girls married very young or being forced to marry;
  • honour killings, where men kill girls in the name of family ’honour’, for example for having sex outside marriage, or refusing an arranged marriage.

 

This edition of CRINMAIL contains items on the following:

 

  • INTRODUCTION: Harmful Traditional Practices and International Instruments
  • FORCED MARRIAGES: Next Report of the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking
  • SOUTH AFRICA: Initiation-Related Deaths in the Eastern Cape Province
  • KENYA: Girl Dies after Trying to Perform Female Genital Mutilation on Herself
  • UNITED KINGDOM: Child Abuse Linked to Accusations of "Possession" or "Witchcraft"
  • TURKEY: From Honour Killings to Honour Suicides
  • CAMPAIGNS
  • WOMEN AND GIRLS: Violence Against Women – Issues, Research and Policy

    To read the full CRINMAIL, click here.

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RESOURCES: Latest Resources added to the Violence Website

  • An online discussion on the theme of “The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child” is being organised by the Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations. The discussion will run for four weeks from 14 August to 8 September 2006.  

Visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=9615

 

  • Behind Closed Doors: A global study published on Tuesday by UNICEF and The Body Shop International reveals the devastating and lasting impact on children of living with domestic violence. 

Visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?id=9587                                   Download: http://www.crin.org/docs/unicef_bs_dom_vio.pdf

 

  • On Wednesday 26th July, Save the Children Fiji launched its report The Physical and Emotional Punishment of Children in Fiji to begin a 3 year public awareness campaign to reduce the physical and emotional punishment of children in Fiji.

Visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?id=9555                                  Download: http://www.crin.org/docs/save_fiji_phys_em_pun.pdf 

 

  • The Better Care Network (BCN) launched a website in collaboration with the Child Rights Information Network (CRIN). The website will improve the Network’s ability to support individual and collective efforts to enable children to have the care that they need and to which they are entitled. Go to: www.bettercarenetwork.org

 

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