Africa: UN Experts Call for Urgent Action to Mitigate Heightened Risks of Violence Against Children

Geneva — Parents, caregivers, service providers and law enforcement officials all need extra support to minimise the increased risks to children, the UN human rights experts said.

"Globally, confinement measures and the disrupted provision of already limited child protection services exacerbate the vulnerability of children living in psychiatric and social care institutions, orphanages, refugee camps, immigration detention centres and other closed facilities, as cases of violence, sexual abuse and exploitation of children confined in these premises are likely to go undetected," said the UN Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio.

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