Children and Violence microsite

Read the Child Friendly Version of the UN Study and learning activities. Then take the Quiz!

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 Click help to find a helpline especially for kids. Through the helpline you can find someone to talk to about problems at school, in your community, or at home.

What's happening now?

• ILO Global Child Labour Conference 2010
• ILO TV YouTube
• Youth Led Organisation response to the ILO Conference 2010
• World Day Against Child Labour - 12 June

 

Follow Along 
Youth led organisations around the world are using social media such as Taking It Global, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, just to name a few. Here are some groups to check out
CRINwire
TakingItGlobal
Facebook

Youth Led Organisations
YouthNoise
Elaan: Combat Child Sex Abuse
Network Movement For Youth And Children Welfare-Sierra Leone
CRIN Members 

For parents, teachers, and children
Parenting in Contemporary Europe: A positive approach
Adults and Children Together (ACT)
Plan: Violence Against Children
SKIP: Strategies with Kids - Information for Parents
The Center for Effective Discipline

Resources

 

• World Congress III: Against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents

• Council of Europe: Case law of European Court of Human Rights relevant to children

• Council of Europe: Commissioner for Human Rights

• Council of Europe: Wild Web Woods
• UNICEF: Voices of Youth
• NGO Group for the CRC: Sexual Exploitation
• UNICEF: StopXploitation

Child Participation 

A key feature of the UN Study on Violence Against Children was child participation.  

Paulo Pinheiro included children in every regional meeting during the UN Study.

Find out what happened at the 9 regional meetings

Caribbean: Children's Forum Report and Declaration

South Asia: Take a look at the events and who participated

West and Central Africa: Children's recommendations

North America: Children's Statement

Latin America: Take a look at the discussions

East Asia and Pacific: See the opening address by young delegates and their keynote address

Middle East and North Africa: Pinheiro’s Q&A with child participants and their declaration

Europe and Central Asia: See the Q&A session with Pinheiro and look at what young delegates asked their government’s

East and Southern Africa: See what Pinheiro talked about with children and what happened at the Children's Forum

See what happened at the New York launch of the UN Study in May 2006 [Day 1] [Day 2] [Day 3] and Español [Day 2]

 

CRIN interviews young participants
Alaa, Yemen [en]
Martin, Slovenia [en]
Mamadou, Senegal [en] [fr]
Cinthia, Nicaragua [en] [es]
Congcong, China [en]