Ending Violence Against Children: Six Strategies for Action

Publish Year
2014
Publisher
UNICEF
Description

A new report issued by UNICEF, presents strategies for preventing and responding to violence in the lives of children. The scope of this review includes interventions that address interpersonal violence (emotional, physical and sexual) against children at home, school, work, the community at large and social spaces created by mobile and online technology. It highlights the IMAGE and Stepping Stones programmes as examples of effective interventions to empower women and girls, and to reduce gender-based violence and HIV. The report is directed at government leaders, civil society representatives, the private sector and the international development community.