The United Nations Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children | Health (Diseases, Illnesses, Nutrition)

PHOTO: Brazil: In December 2001, a girl, Elaine da Paixao Santos, stands in front of a wall on which she has drawn a heart and the inscription "I love you, mom" in Portuguese, on the grounds of the Mother City Foundation in La Paz, a poor neighbourhood in Salvador, capital of the eastern state of Bahia in Brazil. Elaine lives with her grandmother to avoid the fighting in her parents’ home.

Health (Diseases, Illnesses, Nutrition)

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