Syrian displaced child at a refugee camp – 2017
Save the Children Resource Center
https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/library/global-report-2017-ending-violence-childhood
Direct Link to Full 172-Page 2017 Report:
Overview of Report – 52 Pages:
September 26, 2017 - Many millions of children all over the world are subjected to violence in their everyday lives. Such violence takes place in homes, in families, in schools, in institutions and on city streets and takes various forms.
This report makes the case for ending violence against children across the world, stressing that violence occurs everywhere. It is an output of Know Violence in Childhood – an independent global learning initiative. The project, like the VAC Study, included a series of regional meetings in Central and South-East Asia, the Pacific and Latin America, which brought together a diverse, multidisciplinary group of researchers and experts, practitioners and policy makers to address the issue of violence against children. By examining existing data and commissioning new research, the Initiative has synthesized knowledge on the causes and consequences of childhood violence, and identified evidence-based strategies to prevent childhood violence.
The report focuses on violence in three settings: Home and Families, Schools, and Communities and Public Spaces. Estimates from 2015 suggested that at least three out of four children worldwide (1.7 billion) had experienced some form of violence in a previous year. The report shows that most forms of violence are interconnected and a substantial number of children are ‘poly-victimized’, which means that they are exposed to more than one form of violence in at least two different settings. The report also links violence experienced by children with violence against women. Witnessing family violence can leave significant though often invisible scars on children. For this reason the report refers to ‘violence in childhood’ to highlight the inter-connections of these experiences and their impact on children.
The report calls for much greater investment in data, research and evaluation to break the silence around violence and to promote public action across the world.
Извор WUNRN – 04.10.2017
