COVID-19’s Hidden Crisis: Violence Against Children
The recent Leaders’ Statement, Violence Against Children: A Hidden Crisis of the COVID-19 Pandemic, called for an urgent and unified global response to protect children from the heightened risk of violence as part of the broader response to COVID-19. During this virtual event hosted by End Violence and the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General to End Violence Against Children, you will hear global experts' perspectives on how governments, the UN system and civil society organisations are responding to this challenge, along with what they are learning and what policy and programmatic approaches need to be prioritized.
Speakers include Najat Maalla M’jid, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children; Cornelius Williams, Associate Director Child Protection, UNICEF; Dr Joan Nyanyuki, Executive Director, African Child Policy Forum (ACPF); Anna Nordlander, Co-ordinator Global Partnership, Ministry of Employment, Government of Sweden; and Bill Forbes, Global Sector Lead-Child Protection and Participation, World Vision International.