Africa: Doha - At UN Conference, UN Agencies Urge Member States to Act On New Standards for Eliminating Violence Against Children

18 April 2015

United Nations officials gathered at the UN Crime Congress under way in Doha, Qatar, today called on Member States to take action and implement the new international standards on the elimination of violence against children adopted late last year, stressing that such violence continues to have a devastating effect on children, families, and society as a whole.

The new set of international standards and norms - entitled the "United Nations Model strategies and practical measures on the elimination of violence against children in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice," and approved by the UN General Assembly on 18 December 2014 - aim to not only improve the effectiveness of the criminal justice system in preventing and responding to violence against children but also to protect children against any violence that may result from their contact with that system.

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