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96Violence against children in the home and familytion with local government, hospitals, professionaland traditional birth attendants,police, religious and community leaders,and other partners in order to ensure universaluptake.12. Develop a national research agenda onfamily violence against children. Governmentsshould put in place a set of nationalpriorities for research that can supplementinformation systems with in-depth qualitativeand quantitative research. Guidedby international indicators and standards,Governments and their partners shouldstrengthen information systems throughimproved surveillance of reported cases offamily violence against children, and alsothrough population-based research whichincludes estimates of the prevalence ofchildhood victimisation. Risk and protectivefactors related to violence can also beassessed by retrospective studies of childhood,and by interviewing young adults.Data should be disaggregated to make visiblethe scale and scope of the experiencesof girls and boys of different ages that arerelated to violence and overcoming it, theirsituations, and their risk and protectivefactors. Such efforts should include confidentialinterviews with the children themselves,with special attention given to vulnerablegroups and their families, as well asto parents and other caregivers and adults,and appropriate ethical safeguards shouldbe put in place. The information gatheredshould be shared widely to inform publicpolicy and related action.References1 UNICEF (2003). A League Table of Child MaltreatmentDeaths in Rich Nations. Innocenti Report Card, No. 5.Florence, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.2 Yoder PS et al. (2004). Female Genital Cutting in theDemographic Health Surveys: A Critical and ComparativeAnalysis. Calvertion, ORC Macro.3 UNICEF (2003). Female Genital Cutting in Somalia:Reasons for Continuation and Recommendations forEradication. UNICEF Somalia. Cited in: UNICEFSomalia (2003). From Perception to Reality: A Study onChild Protection in Somalia, Ch. 3. UNICEF Somalia.4 Committee on the Rights of the Child (2006). GeneralComment No. 8. The Right of the Child to Protectionfrom Corporal Punishment and Other Cruel or DegradingForms of Punishment (articles 19, 28(2) and 37, interalia), CRC/C/GC/8.5 UN Habitat (2006). State of the World’s Cities Report2006/7. Nairobi, UN Habitat. Available at: http://www.unhabitat.org/mediacentre/ documents/sowcr2006/SOWCR%201.pdf.6 UN Habitat (2006). State of the World’s Cities Report2006/7. Nairobi, UN Habitat. Available at: http://www.unhabitat.org/mediacentre/ documents/sowcr2006/SOWCR%201.pdf.7 Krug EG et al. (Eds) (2002). World Report on Violenceand Health. Geneva, World Health Organization.8 Molyneux M (2004). Poverty Relief Programmes andthe ‘New Social Policy in Latin America’: Women andCommunity Carework. UNRISD Project on Genderand Social Policy, Mimeo, Geneva, UNRISD. Cited in:UNRISD (2005). Gender Equality: Striving for Justicein an Unequal World. United Nations Research Institutefor Social Development.9 UNRISD (2005). Gender Equality: Striving for Justicein an Unequal World. United Nations Research Institutefor Social Development.