Publications

This advocacy brief highlights the vital link between the 2030 Agenda and children’s well-being, showcasing how cross-sectoral SDG implementation helps prevent and respond to violence against children while driving overall progress.

Children have the right to live free from violence, a key commitment of the 2030 Agenda. Yet, over half of the world’s children face violence yearly, causing lasting harm. Beyond the human toll, it imposes heavy economic burdens across all countries, regardless of income, region, or culture.

Preventing and eliminating child trafficking is a collective responsibility. To address this issue, the United Nations facilitates the Inter-Agency Coordination Group Against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT), a specialized body that brings together multiple agencies.

Children in Street Situations discusses the challenges faced by children living on the streets, including their exposure to violence, exploitation, and lack of access to basic services such as education and healthcare. It highlights the need for a comprehensive approach to address their needs, which includes legal protection, social services, and community support. The document emphasizes the importance of understanding the root causes that lead children to the streets and implementing policies focusing on prevention, protection, and rehabilitation.

Child domestic workers represent probably the largest and most ignored group of child workers. The root causes of child domestic labor are multiple and multi-faceted. Poverty and its feminization, the persistence of traditional hierarchies, debt bondages, social exclusion, lack of education, gender and ethnic discrimination, domestic violence, displacement, rural-urban migration, and loss of parents due to conflicts and diseases are just some of the multiple “push factors” for child domestic workers worldwide.

The report focuses on the vulnerabilities faced by children migrating due to conflict, persecution, violence, and climate change. It highlights the increased risks of violence, exploitation, and lack of access to education and health services. The report calls for coordinated global action to protect these children, ensure their rights, and provide durable solutions. It emphasizes the importance of listening to children's voices and urges governments to prioritize child-centered migration policies.

Immigration Detention is never in the best interests of the child and constitutes a child rights violation. It is a form of violence that impacts a country’s capacity to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, especially targets 10.7 and 16. All children, regardless of their legal or migratory status or that of their families, have the right to be cared for and protected from violence, abuse and exploitation. This advocacy brief provides an overview of promising practices and lessons learned to end child immigration detention and sets out a range of policy actions needed to scale up efforts to end this form of violence.