What Children Have to Say: Conversations with Advocates & Policymakers on the COVID-19 Lockdown

Around the world, children and families are facing an unprecedented crisis as COVID-19 results in adverse impacts of increasing scale. Lockdown efforts raise the risk of violence, hunger, child labor, child marriage, and school dropouts among girls. This event will explore the pandemic through the eyes of children; raise awareness of the critical importance of learning from children’s experiences to strengthen child protection systems; and mobilize children and youth as a force for implementation of SDG 16.2.