Paulo Pinheiro, the expert newly appointed to carry out the UN Study on Violence Against Children over the two coming years, participated in two separate events with NGOs during the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva last week. The first event was a panel presentation together with the supporting UN agencies (OHCHR, WHO, UNICEF), the chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and a representative of the NGO Subgroup on Children and Violence. The second was a closed-door two-hour informal meeting with NGOs. In both meetings, he expressed his intention to work closely with the NGO community on the study. A summary of the panel discussion is available on the CRIN website in Word: http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/NGOCRC/NGOCHR-Violence-Panel-April2003.doc; and pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/NGOCRC/NGOCHR-Violence-Panel-April2003.pdf For more information about the Subgroup, visit: http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/NGOCRC/subgroup-violence.htm [source: subgroup on Violence against Children]