The UN Secretary General's Study on Violence against Children is seeking information
which relates to understanding, preventing and reducing violence against children
from NGOs, professional associations, academics, unions, governments and others.
Submissions from children and young people are particularly welcome.

Scope of the study

The Committee recommended that the study should cover violence against children
within the family and in the home, in schools, in care or residential institutions
both State and private, in work situations, in the streets, in detention facilities
and prisons, and also examine violence by police and the use of capital and physical
punishment. The Committee recommended that violence should include all forms of
physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment,
including sexual abuse, bullying in schools, and corporal punishment.

Please note that submissions are requested by MARCH 31, 2005 and can be made in
English, French or Spanish. They can be submitted by e-mail, mail or fax. Download
the submissions form:
http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/NGOCRC/subgroup-violence/Submission_form_25_10_04[1].doc

Further information

The latest information on the dates and locations of regional consultations for the
study is available in the last update of the subgroup on children and violence at:
<http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/NGOCRC/subgroup-violence/Update_02-11-04.doc

On October 18, Professor Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the Secretary-General's independent
expert for the study, presented his progress report to the UN General Assembly in
New York. See:
<http://www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/NGOCRC/subgroup-violence/PinheiroGA59_FINAL_18_10_04_(2)[1].doc

The Children and Violence Subgroup of the NGO Group on the Convention on the Rights
of the Child will meet in Geneva on November 12, at 12 noon at the NGO Group
Offices, 1 rue Varembé.

Those who would like to be added to the listserve of the subgroup should send a
blank e-mail to childrenandviolence-subscribe@domeus.co.uk.

You will then receive a message asking you to confirm your participation. To
confirm, simply click "reply." [SOurce: CRIN]

For more information, contact:

Jo Becker, Human Rights Watch: beckerj@hrw.org
Melanie Gow, World Vision International: Melanie_Gow@wvi.org
Co-conveners, Subgroup on Children and Violence
Website: www.crin.org/docs/resources/publications/NGOCRC/subgroup-violence.htm