Violence: 19 Days of Activism for Prevention – Global campaign for prevention of abuse and violence against children and youth

Summary: The 19 Days Campaign is a WWSF initiative launched in 2011 by the Children-Youth Section and sponsored by the Women's World Summit Foundation - WWSF and other partners.

As a multi-issue coalition of diverse partners using the 19 Days Campaign as an organizing strategy in the fight against at least one of the 19 abuse/violence issues presented in the list of campaign themes, you help create a world fit for children by:

Raising public awareness of the multi-faceted problem of abuse and violence
Mobilizing agents for change, organizations, institutions and grassroots faith-based groups
Educating for better prevention measures
Strengthening local, national and international initiatives
Establishing collaboration with other campaign partners
Creating support at the national, regional and international level
Linking prevention with the Convention on the rights of the child and the UN Study on violence against children
Lobbying governments to implement UN Study recommendations and in particular "prioritize prevention"

Further Information

pdf: http://www.woman.ch/index.php?page=19daysofactivism&hl=en_US

Organisation:

Women's World Summit Foundation

Tags:

Individual cases of violations

Articles:

Article 32: Child labour

Article 35: Sale, trafficking and abduction

Article 37: Torture and deprivation of liberty

Article 19: Protection from abuse and neglect

Article 34: Sexual exploitation

Article 36: Other forms of exploitation

Link :

http://www.woman.ch/index.php?page=19daysofactivism&hl=en_US

Countries

Please note that these reports are hosted by CRIN as a resource for Child Rights campaigners, researchers and other interested parties. Unless otherwise stated, they are not the work of CRIN and their inclusion in our database does not necessarily signify endorsement or agreement with their content by CRIN.