Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Sustainable Development Goal 2 addresses violence against children.

Poverty

While poverty itself is not a direct cause of violence, extreme poverty can contribute to human rights violations. Poverty can create stresses on families, caregivers and communities that exacerbate the risk of violence, abuse and exploitation of children, such as child and forced marriage, child labor, trafficking, smuggling and recruitment into criminal gangs. Children whose basic needs are not being met are often left vulnerable t o the perpetrators of violence.