Leaving no one behind: Ensuring sustainable action to end violence against children.
This high-level event, co-hosted by the World Childhood Foundation, the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations, and the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against children , will provide an opportunity to identify concrete progress achieved in advancing the protection and wellbeing of children , while addressing remaining challenges. Over half the world's children are exposed to violence every year. This violence takes many forms and occurs in many settings, both online and offline. Children's lives are often marked by a continuum of violence. Violence has devastating and lifelong impacts on children's health and wellbeing. In addition to the human cost, violence against children generates a huge economic burden. 2024 saw an unprecedented global process of multistakeholder mobilization to address this pandemic of violence against children. It culminated in the first ever Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence ...