Today, 1.5 billion children are out of school. The pandemic has not only denied children time and opportunity to learn, it is also aggravating violence against children. Limitations on movements of people, locked down populations, and curfews, are increasing family and social stress. When stress goes up, children are more vulnerable than ever.

Join Arigatou International on Monday 11th May 2020 to discuss the organisation's Faith in Action for Children campaign, a global response to the pandemic, and learn how you can be involved and help develop it further.

International Justice Mission assembled a coalition of leading agencies on the frontlines of this hidden crime, including the U.S. Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (JTIP) and the Philippine Government’s Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT), to learn more about OSEC. Using innovative methodologies, we uncovered several important findings and compiled them in the most comprehensive study to date on the nature and scale of OSEC in the Philippines.

Ten key recommendations emerged as a result of the study that, if adopted by the international community, could stop the rapid growth of the online sexual exploitation of children while equipping criminal justice system agencies and NGOs with promising practices in investigations, prosecutions, and survivor care.

Join IJM and partners for a global webinar for policymakers and practitioners to introduce this groundbreaking study’s findings and recommendations. As a member of this international community, you have an important role to play in protecting vulnerable children.

They will be offering two opportunities to attend. To reserve your spot, please select which session(s) you’d like to join and respond via the link below:

• Session 1 - Wednesday, May 20th, 8:00pm-9:30 pm EST (GMT -4:00)
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• Session 2 - Thursday, May 21st, 11:00am-12:30pm EST (GMT -4:00)
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United States Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons John Cotton Richmond, Philippine Department of Justice Undersecretary Emmeline Aglipay Villar, Virtual Global Taskforce Secretariat Member Roberta Sinclair Ph.D., and Executive Director of NCMEC’s Exploited Children Division Lindsey Olson will guide participants through the significance, findings and calls to action of this study.

International Justice Mission assembled a coalition of leading agencies on the frontlines of this hidden crime, including the U.S. Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (JTIP) and the Philippine Government’s Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT), to learn more about OSEC. Using innovative methodologies, we uncovered several important findings and compiled them in the most comprehensive study to date on the nature and scale of OSEC in the Philippines.

Ten key recommendations emerged as a result of the study that, if adopted by the international community, could stop the rapid growth of the online sexual exploitation of children while equipping criminal justice system agencies and NGOs with promising practices in investigations, prosecutions, and survivor care.

Join IJM and partners for a global webinar for policymakers and practitioners to introduce this groundbreaking study’s findings and recommendations. As a member of this international community, you have an important role to play in protecting vulnerable children.

They will be offering two opportunities to attend. To reserve your spot, please select which session(s) you’d like to join and respond via the link below:

• Session 1 - Wednesday, May 20th, 8:00pm - 9:30 pm EST (GMT -4:00)
  RSVP here.
• Session 2 - Thursday, May 21st, 11:00am - 12:30pm EST (GMT -4:00)
  RSVP here.

United States Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons John Cotton Richmond, Philippine Department of Justice Undersecretary Emmeline Aglipay Villar, Virtual Global Taskforce Secretariat Member Roberta Sinclair Ph.D., and Executive Director of NCMEC’s Exploited Children Division Lindsey Olson will guide participants through the significance, findings and calls to action of this study.

The COVID-19 outbreak has uncovered pressure points impacting women and girls across an array of key issues including increased cases of gender-based violence and sexual exploitation, capacity to earn a living and obtaining financial independence, and reduced access to sexual and reproductive health services.

On May 12, 2020, Devex and Facebook are launching a series of ten virtual workshops to create a better understanding of the gender-related issues highlighted by the current pandemic and to share important lessons learned about how data can help inform better responses to the current and future pandemics.

This Apolitical workshop will focus on how to make decisions, and how the perceptions of risk play a role in decision-making processes. The webinar, which is free for all to attend, will also look at how to overcome barriers that hinder good decision-making.

Register here.

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.

Register here.

This webinar examines the technical note on protecting children from violence, abuse, and neglect in the home as countries implement lockdowns and stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of COVID-19. Protective prevention and response strategies are outlined with the goal of strengthening the protection of children in all types of homes. 

Register here.

COVID-19 has demanded that governments provide essential public services without face-to-face interactions. In this free Apolitical workshop, you will learn to overcome the challenge of rapidly digitising public services, connecting with policymakers, public servants and practitioners around the world to workshop projects.

Register here.

The Women Innovators & Leaders Network (WILD) is kicking off the Women in Global Development Leadership Week on May 5 with a series of free webinars and workshops. These sessions cover a multitude of subjects, such as how to scale gender parity through crisis, designing the leadership you love, and leadership in times of crisis, among others.

Register and learn more here.