Violence against Children, What do NGOs know? What do NGOs say? An analysis of information relating to violence available in NGO reports to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child from 1990 to 2005

Publishers NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child Zones International Type Report / Study / Data Date of publication 2006 Document main thematic Child Protection/ Related Topic Document thematics Child Trafficking Total pages 69

It is clear that violence against children is a critical issue present in nearly all NGO reports to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, yet each specific issue is only addressed on average in about one third of the 140 reports reviewed (from sexual exploitation being addressed in over 60% of the reports to violence in military schools being addressed in less than 10%). The absence of data on violence in different settings or on different