Stakeholders from across the Region reaffirm their commitment to ending violence against children | WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
On 6 May 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) brought together high-level stakeholders from across the Middle East and North Africa and Eastern Mediterranean regions for a webinar to follow up on the First Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children, held in Bogotá in November 2024. The […]
There’s no time like the present for integrating climate and violence policies, say researchers | MSN
The dual goals of climate action and ending violence against children can be achieved according to a new paper by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. For the first time, governments are committing funds and making concrete pledges to reach the UN Sustainable […]
Childhood trauma damages society – why aren’t our leaders recognising it? | Al Jazeera
Twenty-five years ago a study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that, in the United States, traumatic life experiences during childhood and adolescence are far more common than was expected. The participants in that study were mostly white, middle-class, well-educated, and in possession of good medical insurance, and yet, only […]
What does safe mean to you? Photography contest
What does safe mean to you? This is the question which global youth agency Restless Development asked young, aspiring photographers (18-25) worldwide to consider, in a specially commissioned photography contest and project for the global campaign to end violence against children led by the WHO. Their answers and the photos which brought them to life, form a beautiful, moving […]