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Violence is a reality for half of the world’s children; 1 billion experience physical, emotional, and sexual abuse every year. Experiencing violence is not only a violation of children's rights, it also increases the risk of mental health conditions, noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer, infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, and social problems such as criminal activity and substance abuse. Violence does more than harm individual children; it undermines the fabric of society. It makes it harder for children to build happy, healthy lives and costs the global economy billions of dollars each year.
To address this global tragedy, the Governments of Colombia and Sweden, in partnership with WHO, UNICEF and the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on ending violence against children, will host the First Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence against Children, in Bogota, Colombia, from 7-8 November 2024. The Ministerial Conference will help secure a step-change in support for proven prevention solutions and reset collective ambitions to realize the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development target for every child to live free from violence.
Today, organizers of the Ministerial Conference have launched a campaign to mark the 100 day countdown until this auspicious event. To contribute to the broad and brilliant efforts being delivered by violence prevention partners around the world, a collective campaign has been created — with a first, partner-led moment on 30 July and subsequent high-profile moments prior to the meeting of the UN General Assembly in September. The campaign, “Childhood Is In Our Hands”, seeks to ensure strong attendance and announcements at the Ministerial Conference to maximize its impact with and for children. It is purposefully unbranded, making a case for the scale, severity, solutions, and moment for action.
On 30 July and thereafter, all organisations are encouraged to make use of the material, to raise the visibility and volume around violence against children and the Ministerial Conference. A toolkit provides suggested text and a range of assets, including static and animated tiles: Arabic | English | French | Portuguese | Spanish
Please join us in amplifying these urgent messages by sharing them on social media. Other actions linked to the campaign are also proposed, including with pre-loaded messages proposed for use on the social media platform X. This is a direct way to let decision-makers know that people care about them attending and announcing action at the Ministerial Conference. The action will go live on globalgoals.org/endchildviolence on 30 July. All partners are invited to share their organization’s logo so that it appears on the campaign webpage.
In short, please consider on 30 July:
- Sharing a post on your organisational social channels (Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn) using the messaging and assets provided.
- Further amplifying the campaign by encouraging your supporters and partners to participate in other actions proposed as part of the campaign.
- Sharing your organisation’s logo with celeste@project-everyone.org no later than Monday, 29 July, to appear on the campaign webpage.
We are so grateful for your leadership and partnership and excited to see how, together, we can shift the dial in the coming 100 days – with and for children.
RELATED LINKS
First Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence against Children
First Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children (endviolenceagainstchildrenconference.org)
Recording of Town Hall meeting of 22 July on status of preparations
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