FUTURES Joins the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children
At least 3 out of 4 children around the globe experience violence. Violence against children happens everywhere – in communities, schools, and homes, in rich and poor countries and across borders, during the chaos of an emergency, online and through mobile phones. It can be physical, sexual, psychological, or emotional.
For decades, FUTURES has been in the forefront of advocating for prevention strategies that promote healthy parent-child relationships, friendships, and dating relationships in the U.S. It is time that we join a global effort, so we have now joined the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children to help bring about a world where every child grows up free from violence.
The Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children is where all major stakeholder groups come together to focus their words, actions and resources on ending violence against children – a unique public-private partnership for all actors to hold themselves accountable and work together to prevent and respond to violence against children. It includes governments, United Nations agencies, international organizations, civil society, faith groups, the private sector, philanthropic foundations, research practitioners, academics, and children themselves. Together these leaders commit to using their collective action and voice, coupled with coordinated political and financial capital, to:
- change laws and policies
- implement evidence-based, multi-sectoral action plans
- share lessons learned, and
- mutually hold each other accountable.
The Global Partnership was launched in 2016 and currently has 169 members. As part of its commitment to the Global Partnership, FUTURES will work to elevate and improve the U.S government’s commitment to the prevention and response to violence, exploitation, neglect, and abuse against children around the world.
