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eConoMies Count, but Children don’t

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Data on Homicide produced by national registration systems since 2005, as available to UNODC, p115, available at http://www.unodc.org/documents/ gsh/pdfs/2014_GLOBAL_HOMICIDE_BOOK_web. pdf; populations were estimated using United Nations Population Division (2014) World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, available at http://esa. un.org/wpp/

Children are being starved oF justiCe

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Child survivors FaCe Further inequality

Categorisation according to World Bank economic country definitions, using child murder count estimates, based on child murder rates and 2012 child population estimates: World Bank (2014)

Country and Lending Groups, World Bank, available at http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-and- lending-groups#Low_income; For child murder rates, see Statistical Table – United Nations Children’s Fund (2014) Hidden in Plain Sight: A statistical analysis of violence against children, New York: UNICEF, p196-199 available at http://files. unicef.org/publications/files/Hidden_in_plain_ sight_statistical_analysis_EN_3_Sept_2014.pdf; Populations were estimated using United Nations Population Division (2014) World Population

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Comparison of homicide rate and number of out of school children in 2012 (or latest available year), homicide rate based on: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2014) Homicide Counts and Rates, available at http://www.unodc.org/ gsh/en/data.html; The number of out of school children were estimated using: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (2014) Institute for Statistics, available at http://www. uis.unesco.org/Datacentre/Pages/instructions. aspx?SPSLanguage=EN

Save the Children (2014) State of the World’s Mothers 2014: Saving Mothers and Children in Humanitarian Crisis, Save the Children, p16, available at http://www.savethechildren. org/atf/cf/%7B9def2ebe-10ae-432c-9bd0- df91d2eba74a%7D/SOWM_2014.PDF

violenCe is deClining

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body and brain

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Estimate based on burden of self-harm,

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developMent and relationships

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lost potential

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In 2004, a study funded by the Department of Trade and Industry estimated the cost of domestic violence in 2001 to be £22,869 million. These costs included the costs of services, of loss of economic output and the human and emotional costs. The latter is based on estimates of what people would pay to avoid such injuries similar to the cost-benefit analysis approach used for analysing road traffic accidents, see Sylvia Walby (2004) The Cost of Domestic

Violence, Women & Equality Unit, National Statistics, available at http://paladinservice.co.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2013/07/cost_of_dv_research_summary- Walby-2004.pdf; An update in 2009, by Professor Sylvia Walby, used the same approach to estimate the total cost of domestic violence for 2008 – an estimated cost of £15,730 million, see Sylvia Walby

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vulnerability to violenCe

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post-2015 proposals For ending violenCe against Children

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2 Eugene M. Lewit and Linda Schuurmann Baker (1996), ‘Children as Victims of Violence,’ The Future of Children, Vol 6(3):147-156, available at https://www. princeton.edu/futureofchildren/publications/docs/06_03_Indicators.pdf 3 United Nations Children’s Fund (2014), Hidden in Plain Sight: A statistical

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5 United Nations Children’s Fund (2014), op cit

6 Calculations based on figures from Silent Epidemic – Key Findings, paper by River Path Associates to accompany this report

7 United Nations Children’s Fund (2014), op cit, p38

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11 Office for National Statistics (2014) ‘Crime in England and Wales: Year ending December 2013’, Statistical Bulletin, available at http://www.ons.gov.uk/ ons/dcp171778_360216.pdf p96; and for LT prevalence 18 – 24 see Lorraine Radford, Susana Corral, Christine Bradley, Helen Fisher, Claire Bassett, Nick Howat, and Stephen Collishaw, (undated), Child abuse and neglect in the UK today. London: NSPCC, available at http://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/research/ findings/child_abuse_neglect_research_PDF_wdf84181.pdf p89 -life time prevalence of sexual abuse, including both contact and non contact abuse (involving looking at, or producing sexual images, watching sexual activities, encouraging sexually inappropriate behaviour, or grooming for sexual abuse) by any adult or peer perpetrator

12 ChildFund Alliance (2013), Small Voices, Big Dreams 2013: A global survey of children’s views on peace, violence, heroes and happiness. Richmond VA: Child Fund, available at https://www.childfund.org/uploadedFiles/public_site/ news/current/2013/SmallVoices2013ALLIANCE%2016%20Oct%202013.pdf 13 Based on comparable data for 62 countries – see United Nations Children’s

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14 Dipak Naker (2005) Violence Against Children: The Voices of Ugandan Children and Adults. Kampala: Raising Voices and Save the Children in Uganda, available at http://raisingvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/downloads/ resources/violence_against_children.pdf

15 Elly Farmer and Samantha Callan (2012), Beyond Violence: Breaking cycles of domestic abuse. London: Centre for Social Justice, available at http://www. centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/publications/beyond-violence-breaking-cycles-of- domestic-abuse

16 Shanaaz Mathews, Naeemah Abrahams, Rachel Jewkes, Lorna J Martin and Carl Lombard, “The epidemiology of child homicides in South Africa,’ Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Volume 91, Number 8, August 2013, 545- 620, available at http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/91/8/12-117036/en/ - table 3

17 United Nations Children’s Fund (2006), op cit.

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27 United Nations Children’s Fund (2014), op cit, box 3.1, p46

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31 Ecaterina Stativa (eds) (2000), Survey on Child Abuse in Residential Care Institutions in Romania, available at http://www.unicef.org/ceecis/Survey_ ChildAbuse_ResidentialCare_Romania1.pdf p19

32 Human Rights Watch (2013), Barely Surviving – Detention, Abuse, and Neglect of Migrant Children in Indonesia. New York: Human Rights Watch, available at http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/indonesia0613webwcover. pdf; International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) and Statistical Information and Monitoring Programme on Child Labour (2002) Every Child Counts: New Global Estimates on Child Labour. Geneva: ILO, available at http://www.ilo.org/ipecinfo/product/download. do?type=document&id=742

33 Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (2013) Conflict Barometer. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research, available at http://www.hiik.de/en/downloads/data/downloads_2013/ ConflictBarometer2013.pdf

34 United Nations (2007), ‘Report of the special representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict,’ available at http:// www.securitycouncilreport.org/atf/cf/%7B65BFCF9B-6D27-4E9C-8CD3- CF6E4FF96FF9%7D/CAC%20A%2062%20228.pdf

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endnotes

36 See War Child (undated), ‘Effects on Children of Landmines,’ available at http://www.warchild.org/Interactive_Galleries/Landmines/Effects/effects. html [accessed 4 September 2014]; Save the Children (2011), Devastating Impact: Explosive weapons and children. London: The Save the Children Fund, available at http://www.unicef.org/protection/Devastating_Impact_low_res.pdf 37 WarChild (2014), ‘The Effects of War on Children,’ available at http://www.

warchild.org.uk/issues/effects-war-children [accessed 4 September 2014] 38 United Nations Population Fund (2013), ‘Towards Ending Sexual Violence in

the Democratic Republic of Congo,’ available at http://www.unfpa.org/public/ home/news/pid/15306

39 Child Soldiers (2014), ‘Child Soldiers in DRC,’ available at http://www.child- soldier.org/child-soldiers-in-drc [accessed 4 September 2014]

40 United Nations Children’s Fund (2014), op cit 41 United Nations Children’s Fund (2011), op cit.

42 Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children (2013), Toward a World Free from Violence. New York: Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, available at http://srsg.violenceagainstchildren.org/sites/default/files/publications_final/ toward_a_world_free_from_violence.pdf

43 As of August 2014, see United Nations Children’s Fund (2014), op cit 44 Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children

(2013), op cit

45 Human Rights Council (2012) ‘Joint report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children on prevention of and responses to violence against children within the juvenile justice system,’ United Nations A/HRC/21/25, available at http://srsg.violenceagainstchildren.org/sites/default/files/documents/docs/A- HRC-21_25_EN.pdf

46 4 billion live in extra legal areas, see endnote 1 in Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (2008), Making the Law Work for Everyone – Volume 1 Report of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor. New York: Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor and United Nations Development Programme, available at http://www.unrol.org/files/ Making_the_Law_Work_for_Everyone.pdf; United Nations Children’s Fund (2013), Every Child’s Birth Right: Inequities and trends in birth registration. New York: UNICEF, available at http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Birth_ Registration_11_Dec_13.pdf

47 Edward Miguel (2007), ‘Poverty and Violence: An Overview of Recent Research