Whereas violence against children can take many forms, including sexual violence, physical violence, emotional violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation; Whereas, each year, more than 1,000,000,000 children worldwide are exposed to violence; Whereas, each year, the global economic impact of physical, psychological, and sexual violence against children can be as high as $7,000,000,000,000, which is 8 percent of global gross domestic product (referred to in this preamble as global GDP ); Whereas the economic costs of— (1) child labor amount to between 2.4 and 6.6 percent of global gross national income annually; and (2) child abuse amount to 4 percent of global GDP annually; Whereas, around the world, nearly 1 in 3 adolescent girls between 15 and 19 years of age, or 84,000,000 girls, have been victims of emotional, physical, or sexual violence, which is often perpetrated by individuals the girls know; Whereas 1 in 3 girls in the developing world is said to be married before reaching 18 years of age and, of those girls, an estimated 1 in 9 is said to be married before reaching 15 years of age; Whereas, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (commonly known as UNICEF ), if there is no reduction in the practice of child marriage, the global number of women married in childhood will reach 1,200,000,000 by 2050, which will have devastating global consequences; Whereas 246,000,000 boys and girls experience gender-based violence in schools each year; Whereas children with disabilities are 3 to 4 times more likely to experience physical or sexual violence; Whereas 168,000,000 children are involved in child labor and 5,500,000 children are subject to forced labor, including in situations of trafficking; Whereas nearly 1/2 of the 65,000,000 individuals who, as of the date on which this resolution is adopted, are displaced by conflict and war around the world are children and displacement exposes those children to increased risk of exploitation, violence, and abuse