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
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