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Save the Children New Zealand,
Tena kotou katoa child advocate colleagues in Aotearoa
The following material comes from the website of the Children’s Rights Information network (CRIN) – it calls on NGOs world-wide to sign a petition asking the UN member states to fully implement the recommendations of the UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children and to establish a Special representative to the Study to work with the UN system.
Please read the information, visit the website given below and join the long list of NGOs signing this petition. I encourage you to email this petition to other NGO’s in your networks.
AN INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ACTION TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN:
Establish a Special Representative to the UN Secretary-General on Violence against Children.
Violence is a daily reality for millions of children around the world, affecting girls and boys of all ages, all social contexts, and all nationalities. In every part of their lives —their homes and families, schools, institutions, workplaces and communities — children may be beaten, sexually assaulted, tortured, and even killed. The perpetrators of this violence are often the very individuals who are responsible for protecting children – their parents, guardians, teachers, employers, the police and security forces. Violence is a global epidemic of scandalous proportions, violating every child’s right to a safe and healthy environment.
The UN Secretary-General’s 2006 Study on Violence against Children exposes the shocking scope of violence against children and documents its devastating effects on children, their families, their communities, and broader society. The Study clearly establishes the urgent need for immediate action to prevent and respond to violence against children in all of its forms.
We, as local, national, regional, and international non-governmental organisations from every part of the world, call on each UN member state to fully implement the Study’s important recommendations.
Having carefully considered alternative ways of ensuring global leadership on this issue, we also call on member states to act at the 2007 UN General Assembly to establish a Special Representative to the Secretary-General on Violence against Children to work with the UN system, member states, NGOs, children and youth as a high-level and high-profile advocate to ensure concrete action to end violence against children in all parts of the world.
To sign the petition, visit:www.crin.org/violence/petitions/petition.asp?petID=1004#sign
New Zealand organisations that have already signed the petition as per 3 October 2007: