On 18–19 November, ministers will meet in Manila for the Second Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children, under the theme “Prevention at scale”.
Family for Every Child will be at the Conference promoting our locally led pathways to strengthening families and preventing violence against all children. One day before, we will host a satellite event with our partners on the importance of protecting boys from sexual violence.
You are invited to join our satellite event, visit our exhibition during the Conference, and meet us in person. Keep reading to discover what we're preparing and how to take part.
Named and Counted
Before the conference opens, on 16 November, we're hosting the event Named and Counted: A First Political Commitment to Protect Boys from Sexual Violence. This is an opportunity to join survivors, governments, civil society, and child protection leaders in making boys visible in the global child protection agenda, discover locally led approaches, national responses, and lessons from around the globe, and hear concrete pledges, from policy and legislation to services, data, prevention, and investment.
Register for the satellite event here.
Every Step Matters Exhibition
Come and find us at Every Step Matters on 18 and 19 November. Two of our focus areas are preventing sexual violence and advocating for better support for kinship care in policy and practice. As Rajiv Roy, our Senior Programme Advisor, puts it:
“Strong families can help prevent violence and create safer environments for children – including boys, whose experiences of sexual violence are too often overlooked.”
You are invited to visit our interactive exhibition, walk the pathway, and discover promising practices from our collective work. Listen to the voices of children, young people and adults, and discover the recommendations from our research.
At the end of the path, we'll ask you: what pledges or commitments do you want governments to make to protect boys, and all children equally, and to support kinship care? Write your answer on a blue leaf for protecting boys from sexual violence, or a yellow leaf for preventing family separation and strengthening families.
Our Tree of Commitments starts the conference bare. Help us fill it and make it bloom.
About us
Family for Every Child is a locally led, globally connected children's rights organisation, and we believe the most likely way for children's rights to be realised is for children to grow up in and be part of safe, loving families.
We are a global network of civil society organisations that work to enable families to care for and protect their children by preventing violence and unnecessary family separation. A child's right to be with their family should always be prioritised in decisions that affect them, provided it is safe and in their best interests.