Violence: 19 Days of Activism for Prevention – Global campaign for prevention of abuse and violence against children and youth
What is the 19 Days Campaign?
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"
Why a 19 Days Campaign ?
After years of campaigning for the “World Day for prevention of child abuse (19 November)” and building an international coalition of thousands of relevant organizations and partners, the time had come to expand our international outreach and develop the “19 Days of activism campaign, 1-19 November” to increase awareness about prevention of abuse and activities for the elimination of violence and abuse against children and youth.
Aims of the 19 Days Campaign
- Continue to bring to light the alarming problem, its multifaceted aspects and the need to generate sufficient civil society interest and government and public support for better prevention measures
- Catalyze grassroots support for the mandate of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Violence against Children – SRSG VAC
- Create new synergies at all levels between diverse actors (youth included) to empower the international community in its commitment to eliminating violence against children and youth
The 19 Campaign themes
- Children involved in armed conflict (2012 main theme)
- Sexual abuse
- Bullying
- Neglect
- Child labor
- Corporal punishment (2011 main theme)
- Sale of children (2013 main theme)
- Child prostitution (2013 main theme)
- Child pornography (2013 main theme)
- Child trafficking
- Child sex tourism
- Harmful traditional practices
- Street children
- Discrimination based on health conditions
- Addiction and substance abuse
- Malnutrition
- Dangers of ICTs
- Abduction
- Juvenile death penalty
Registration
To register your organisation as a participating member to the 19 Days of Activism Campaign, click here.
pdf: http://19days.woman.ch/index.php/en/
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