Children and youth throughout the globe share their messages to world leaders on ending violence against children during this milestone year marking the 30th anniversary of the UN CRC.

Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm (light lunch available from 12:30 pm)
Place: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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ChildFund Alliance, in partnership with UNICEF, will convene a two-hour discussion aimed at fostering meaningful and impactful discourse on improving the well-being of children and youth who are at risk of irregular migration in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. The Protection of Children at Risk of Irregular Migration forum will precede the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt a Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Morocco on December 10-11, 2018.

Speakers will examine the root causes and devastating effects of irregular migration and proactive efforts to implement preventative measures, as well as explore how one initiative is successfully working to keep children and youth safe through steps such as training, safe spaces, and policy and program changes at the government level.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Meg Gardinier, Secretary General, ChildFund Alliance, Moderator
• Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence against Children
• Cornelius Williams, Associate Director Child Protection, Programme Division, UNICEF
• Alicia Ávila de Parada, Country Director, Educo, El Salvador
• Philip Tanner, Ph.D., Senior Director for Policy & Government Relations, Christian Children’s Fund Canada
• Erin Kennedy, Director, Advocacy and Partnerships, ChildFund International
• Youth will share their personal stories through video

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Dr. Nicholas Alipui

Dr. Nicholas Alipui has more than 30 years’ experience in strategic leadership, intergovernmental negotiations, child rights advocacy, and programming in diverse country and regional settings. He has extensive experience in disaster/post-disaster, conflict and post-conflict analysis for prevention, reintegration, protection, and inter-agency activities.

In addition to substantial field experience with UNICEF working on complex emergencies in the Philippines, Kenya, Somalia, and Angola, Dr. Alipui worked at the agency’s headquarters in New York as Director and Senior Adviser Post-2015 Development Agenda and Director of Programmes.

He has served on the boards of GAVI, GAIN, and USI, among others.

Susan Bissell

Susan Bissell is Director of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children. The primary purpose of the partnership is to “end abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children.”

She spent over 25 years working in various capacities for UNICEF, including, from 2009 to 2015, as Chief of Child Protection in UNICEF’s Program Division. She earned a PhD in public health and medical anthropology from the University of Melbourne in Australia. While completing her doctorate, she joined Trudie Styler and the Bangladeshi film team Catherine and Tareque Masud to produce the documentary “A Kind of Childhood,” which has won awards and been screened widely.

Meg Gardinier

Meg Gardinier is an international, not-for-profit advocate specializing in women’s and children’s issues.

Since July 2015 she has been Secretary General of ChildFund Alliance, a global network of child development organizations working in more than 60 countries. Previous positions include Senior Coordinator for the Elevate Children Funders Group; Director of Arigatou International; New York Managing Director of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF; and Executive Director of the International Catholic Child Bureau, U.S.

Ms. Gardinier is a founding member and Volunteer Chair of the Campaign for U.S. Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. She is a board member of End Child Prostitution and Trafficking.

 Mina Jaf

Mina Jaf is the Founder and Director of Women Refugee Route (WRR), an NGO that focuses on women and girl refugees’ access to information on their rights and increases visibility and publicity through national and international advocacy.

Born in Kurdistan, she and her family were forced to flee to Denmark as refugees when she was 11 years old. In April 2016, she was awarded the Voices of Courage Award by the Women’s Refugee Commission in recognition of her work.

Ms. Jaf was a speaker at the multi-stakeholder hearing at the recent UN Summit on Refugees and Migrants.

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#FreeFromViolence

ChildFund Alliance launched a multi-year global effort beginning in 2012 to ensure that the protection of children from violence and exploitation would become a priority in the 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. During the campaign, more than 680,000 people signed a ChildFund petition so that a world where children are #FreeFromViolence would become a global priority. Now that protecting children from violence and exploitation is a key part of the world’s Sustainable Development Goals, ChildFund is working to ensure these global aspirations are translated into concrete and definitive actions to end violence against children.

See our interactive data visualization to learn what 16,000 children from 50 countries had to say about violence against children and the related global priorities.