Stockholm - Sweden Monday said it supported efforts by the United Nations to prevent violence against children, and pledged 386,000 dollars to the office of Marta Santos Pais, the UN special representative specializing in the matter. "It is key that this important work commences fast. Children are daily subjected to incomprehensible violence although it is 20 years since the UN Children's Convention was approved," International Development Cooperation Minister Gunilla Carlsson said in a statement.
Marta Santos Pais of Portugal was appointed May 1 as the special representative on violence against children by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Carlsson on Monday met with Santos Pais on the sidelines of a meeting of non-governmental organizations and human rights groups held in Sweden.
Last week Sweden assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union.
