United Nations Human Rights Council Fifty-eighth Session | 2025
In the present report, submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 78/187, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, Najat Maalla M’jid, reviews the actions she took in 2024 at the global, regional and national levels and the results achieved in fulfilling her mandate. She emphasizes the wide multi-stakeholder mobilization undertaken throughout 2024, which marked the fifteenth anniversary of the establishment of her Office. The report is focused, in particular, on the alarming increase in trafficking in children and the urgent need to scale up efforts to end that form of violence against children.