Publications
- Funding appeal
Funding Appeal 2025
Investing in child protection and wellbeing: A key accelerator of the SDGs
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.
Building the investment case for ending violence against children
Child Trafficking: A crime against children that needs to end today
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
Children in street situations are children first and foremost
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 labour
We need to act now to end child domestic labour
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.
Children on the move: They have rights, and their rights move with them
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.