A/HRC/25/47 partners, including children and young people, from different regions who reviewed and refined the text, advised on the design and helped shape these important advocacy tools. It is expected that the publications will help to widely disseminate the Optional Protocols, raise children’s awareness about their rights, help to prevent their exposure to sexual violence and abuse, and give children confidence to speak up and seek support to prevent violations and enjoy effective protection. Collaboration with Member States and other partners will remain crucial to support the translation of these child-friendly materials into national languages and promote their consideration in the framework of the school system. 2. Advancing the implementation of international standards for children’s protection from violence 12. The Special Representative pursued close cooperation with United Nations partners, regional organizations and other strategic allies in advocacy and policy dialogue for the promotion and implementation of international standards to safeguard children’s right to freedom from violence. 13. Critical attention was paid to violence in work settings. This is an area where significant challenges prevail, with countless children coerced into working in plantations or fishing in the deep sea; engaged in hazardous activities; sold into marriage, victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation; or recruited by criminal gangs or drug dealers. All these situations compromise the protection of children’s rights. 14. Children engaged in domestic work, most of them girls, are also highly vulnerable to violence. According to the most recent figures published by the International Labour Organization (ILO), at least 52.6 million people are employed as domestic workers across the world, 15.5 million of whom are children.3 Most of them work as housekeepers, nannies or caregivers, and many are also migrants who hope to support their families through their remittances. Often isolated, with no formal protection structure, child domestic workers are highly vulnerable to labour exploitation, working long hours without rest, being denied holidays or deprived of wages, and enduring serious manifestations of violence and abuse. 15. As highlighted by the Special Representative at the third Global Conference on Child Labour, held in October 2013 in Brazil, such forms of violence are not inevitable; they can be prevented and effectively addressed. Promoting the ratification and implementation of ILO standards, including ILO Convention No. 189 (2011) concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers, remains a crucial step in this regard. Together with the promotion of the outcomes of the third Global Conference and the Roadmap for Achieving the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2016, these standards will remain a core component of the Special Representative’s global advocacy agenda. B. Accelerating progress towards a world free from violence — the global survey on violence against children 16. During 2013, the Special Representative conducted, in collaboration with a wide range of partners, a global survey to assess progress since the submission of the United Nations Study on Violence against Children. The survey was designed to gain perspective on achievements, reflect on good practices and success factors and boost efforts to 3 http://srsg.violenceagainstchildren.org/sites/default/files/cropped_images/RaisingUnderstanding_OCPC.pdf. ILO, Ending Child Labour in Domestic Work and Protecting Young Workers for Abusive Working Conditions (2013), p. 1. Available from http://srsg.violenceagainstchildren.org/sites/default/files/studies/WDACL2013_Report_EN_Web.pdf. 5