– PRE-REGISTER now to participate in our second Leading Minds Online: Children & Coronavirus event.
Reports
of a “perfect storm” are brewing for millions of children and women
around the world, staying indoors. COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of
international concern for increasing violence inside the home. Across
the globe countries are expanding helplines and online support platforms as media reporting on family violence worldwide rises.
The UN secretary general has called for an urgent domestic violence
“ceasefire” and 146 (updated) governments have signed a pledge re-affirming their support to survivors within the COVID-19 response. This is not new but the pandemic has unveiled what has been hidden
in plain sight – the high levels of violence that children and women
experience in the very place of refuge from this Coronavirus – the home.
On Thursday 21 May at 15:00 CET | 09:00 EST UNICEF Office of
Research-Innocenti launches the second webinar series of “Leading Minds
Online What the Experts Say- Coronavirus and Children: Violence in the
Home”. In this webinar we look at why some of the measures taken to
contain the Coronavirus could be magnifying the risk factors for
violence against children and women – What can be done to prevent
violence against children and women and support survivors now and
post-COVID 19?
Confirmed panelists:
- Alessandra Guedes, Manager, Gender and Development Research, Office of Research-Innocenti, Italy
- Shanaaz Mathews, Director, Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Dipak Naker, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Raising Voices, Uganda
- Cornelius Williams, UNICEF Associate Director & Global Chief of Child Protection, Programme Division, U.S.A.
- Najat Maalla M’jid, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children, Morocco
- Emily Esplen, Adviser at DFID on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls, United Kingdom.