At this webinar, Udisha, an End Violence partner, will host a dialogue on preventing online violence, abuse and exploitation of children during COVID-19.

Speakers include:

• Elly Pradervand, President of the Women's World Summit Foundation
• Karnall Singh, Former Director of Enforcement Directorate, Government of India
• Dr Sherryll Kaizer, Director Coalition for Children
• Dr B Ramaswamy, Senior Advocate Supreme Court of India

Link for live streaming:

https://www.facebook.com/udishaNGOindia

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_yO06PexRt410p6g-

As the world is fighting COVID-19, and countries are actively preparing a sustainable recovery after COVID-19, promoting child rights and implementing measures for the well-being of children is more important than ever. 

The objectives of this convening are to:

1. Elevate violence against children as a global priority for COVID-19 planning and financing
2. Showcase cost-effective, evidence-based solutions that can be scaled 
3. Discuss a collective way forward for European Pathfinding Countries 

Participating countries are those that have already joined the End Violence partnership, with official domestic and international commitments, to ending violence against children. Participants include country delegations (with representation of different sectors including health, education, social welfare, child protection and justice) and European End Violence members.

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The health sector has an essential role to play in preventing, detecting and addressing violence against children, particularly in the most vulnerable communities. In light of this, Member States meeting at the World Health Assembly in 2016, adopted the “Global plan of action to strengthen the role of the health system within a national multisectoral response to address interpersonal violence, in particular against
women and girls and against children”. This action plan is designed to support the fulfilment of the Agenda 2030 so it is imperative to support the compliance of Member States with its targets.

As the world is fighting COVID-19, and most countries dealing with the many consequences, including a rise in violence against children and are preparing a sustainable recovery, promoting child rights and implementing
measures for the well-being of children is more important than ever.

Objectives of this event include:

1. Raise awareness of the need to elevate Violence Against Children as a global priority in responding to COVID-19 and for post-COVID-19 planning and financing
2. Update on initiatives of End Violence, WHO and WVI and reflect on the extent to which the health sector is fulfilling its role, as set out in the WHO global plan of action
3. Discuss a collective way forward for these 30 Pathfinding Countries and the role their missions can play in Geneva

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As the world is fighting COVID-19, and countries are actively preparing a sustainable recovery after COVID-19, promoting child rights and implementing measures for the well-being of children is more important than ever. 

The objectives of this convening are to:

1. Elevate violence against children as a global priority for COVID-19 planning and financing
2. Showcase cost-effective, evidence-based solutions that can be scaled 
3. Discuss a collective way forward for European Pathfinding Countries 

Participating countries are those that have already joined the End Violence partnership, with official domestic and international commitments, to ending violence against children. Participants include country delegations (with representation of different sectors including health, education, social welfare, child protection and justice) and European End Violence members.

Learn more.

This Legally Speaking Webinar Series 2 on Sexual Exploitation of Children aims to create a forum to raise awareness about women and girls experiencing sexual exploitation and sexual assault specifically in the area of overcoming legal barriers and challenges.

The following are our Panel of Speakers and their topics:

Topic 1: Legal Frameworks for Combating Sexual Exploitation of Children
by Dr. Sonia Vohito
Legal Policy Specialist
Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children

Topic 2: Bill of Rights of Child Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
by Ms. Rangsima Deesawade
Regional Coordinator for Southeast Asia
ECPAT International
Bangkok, Thailand

Topic 3: Sexual Assault on Women and Girls in Brunei Darussalam: Overcoming Legal Barriers and Challenges
by Awg. Mohamad Rozaiman DSLJ Abdul Rahman
Managing Partner, ZICO R.A.R. Advocates & Solicitors/Vice President of The Law Society of Brunei Darussalam

Please visit our Instagram @projectwomenbrunei for more details.

This webinar will share the experience of the UK in relation to identifying child victims of trafficking, safeguarding children and trying to disrupt child trafficking. We will outline our trafficking, modern slavery and exploitation legislation, as well as state safeguarding processes and responses. We will share the lessons from the UK context- both what is working well, as well as the challenges we are facing.

During 2018 and 2019 the Save the Children’s Balkans Migration and Displacement Hub carried out a research on informal practices of unaccompanied and separated children traveling the Balkans route. The results are presented in the report “Struggling to Survive: unaccompanied and separated children travelling the Balkans route”(link is external), while the research challenges met during this process and learnings on overcoming these challenges were collected and presented in a document called “Researching UASC: Lessons learned”.

Although this webinar will shortly present key findings on how unaccompanied children find important recourses during their journey, its main focus will be on what are the main difficulties researchers face while researching UASC in transit countries (and how we overcame them). These difficulties and challenges vary from logistical ones (related mostly to the organization of research and accompanying challenges), those related to data collection itself as well as those concerning child protection and safeguarding.

These learnings aim at contributing to the body of knowledge for migration research and, particularly, research on children in migrations. Knowing which obstacles one might meet while conducting research on UASCs or which parts of the research process one should focus special attention/ additional recourses on, could be very useful to anyone planning a research in similar conditions.