Know Violence in Childhood: A Global Learning Initiative

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GLOBAL REPORT 2017

GLOBAL REPORT 2017

ABOUT

CHAPTERS

chapter 1

Time to end violence in childhood

In 2015, around three-quarters of the world’s children – 1.7 billion – experienced some form of violence in a previous year, whether they live in rich countries or poor, in the global North or the global South.

chapter 2

Violence on a global scale

This Report presents global and regional estimates of the best available indicators of inter-personal violence against children. The Report also presents a newly constructed Violence in Childhood Index which reveals that higher levels of per capita income do not necessarily imply lower levels of childhood violence. 

chapter 3

Aggression and fear in the childhood years

Children can be exposed to violence at every stage in their growth, even in the womb. However, the experience and consequences of violence will depend on children’s levels of emotional, cognitive and physical development, and often differ for boys and girls.

chapter 4

No safe place

Children experience violence in many places – in their homes, in schools, and in the wider community, including online. Frequently these experiences are connected. The same children regularly experience violence in multiple settings – a phenomenon known as poly-victimization.

chapter 5

Strategies for prevention

Experience from across the world demonstrates that violence in childhood can be prevented. Governments, communities and organizations have taken steps to address the structural drivers of violence – investing in services, safe spaces, systems and institutions, and building people’s capacities to manage and avoid aggression.

chapter 6

Public action for ending violence in childhood

The Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030 envisions ‘a world free of fear and violence’. This will require determined public action, not just by governments but also by civil society, international organizations, academia, researchers and the media.

GLOBAL REPORT

Children are all too often victims of persistent violence. This need not be the case. Concerted efforts and collective action can end violence in childhood within a single generation. Experiences from across the world provide numerous examples of effective and promising efforts by governments, communities and organizations to prevent violence across the settings where it is experienced by children.

OVERVIEW

Children should grow up in a non-violent world, free from fear and insecurity, and surrounded by caring adults and peers. This will not happen automatically. It will need concerted action and determination not just from families and communities, but also from governments.

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