Africa: Let’s Make Protecting Children from Violence a Priority

The Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children highlights the urgent need to protect over a billion children worldwide from various forms of violence, underscoring the profound and lasting consequences of such abuse on their well-being. While effective strategies exist to prevent violence and have yielded significant reductions in some countries, progress has been inconsistent and insufficient. The upcoming conference in Bogota presents an opportunity for transformative change, calling for concrete commitments to scale solutions, influence policy change, and increase investment to address this critical issue.

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