High-Level Dialogue: Domestic Action and Global Leadership to End Violence Against Children

Date: Mar 01, 2023
Time: 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EST
Address: Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, 605 Third Avenue, 28th Floor, New York
Organizer: Government of Japan, End Violence Partnership

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This High-Level Dialogue will provide a space to:

  • Share progress on international cooperation and collaboration as well as domestic action for SDG 16.2;
  • Place a spotlight on recent outcomes to strengthen government capacity to scale positive parenting programmes to protect children from the impacts of COVID-19 in two End Violence Pathfinding Countries: Kenya and Uganda;
  • Discuss what is needed to accelerate progress in 2023 and beyond, including delivery of the G7 Action Plan on child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA).

Speakers include:

  • H.E. Mr. Ishikane Kimihiro, Permanent Representative of the Japanese Mission to the United Nations
  • Ms. Mikiko Otani, Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
  • Dr. Howard Taylor, Executive Director, End Violence Partnership
  • Aggrey David Kibenge, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Government of Uganda
  • Dr. Mohamed El Munir A. Safieldin (Munir Safieldin), UNICEF Representative to the Republic of Uganda
  • Joseph M. Motari MBS, Principal Secretary, State Department for Social Protection and Senior Citizen Affairs, Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, Government of Kenya
  • Yoko Kobayashi, Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF Kenya
  • Elizabeth Lule, Executive Director, Early Childhood Development Action Network