Any meaningful strategy to address gang membership must recognise that young people's victimisation - including their fears of victimisation and observing the victimisation of others - lies at the heart of the problem.
In adopting it, governments have expressed their resolve to reverse and ultimately end the victimisation of children - hundreds of thousands of them - who are systematically targeted and brutalised in armed conflict.
During the SARS and Ebola outbreaks, association of the viruses with Chinese or African 'others' permitted Europeans to feel relatively safe from infection [ 3], and contributed to the victimisation of some Chinese in Toronto [ 4].
During both SARS [ 12] and previous influenza outbreaks [ 13] association of the viruses with particular 'others' allowed individuals to feel relatively safe from infection, and contributed to the victimisation of some groups [ 14].
For the little girl, who watches the film and can't understand the victimisation of the Creature, the story means something rather different when she wordlessly befriends a wounded, fugitive Republican soldier who, in her mind, is somehow identified with the hounded outcast.
Closer working with the police and specialist services has helped to address the types of ingrained practices that can ignore, or even add to, the victimisation of women and girls.
Previous pandemics have led to stockpiling of goods, the victimisation of particular population groups, and the cancellation of travel and the boycotting of particular foods (e.g. pork).
The foreign affairs secretary, Albert del Rosario, said the government would "pursue full investigation of those accountable for the victimisation of Mary Jane".
