Countries failing to prevent violence against children, agencies warn

Day by child violence drastically increasing. Most of the time they attached with terrible chores.One billion children are affected by violence. Is is true? Yes. Half of the world's children are affected by physical, sexual, or psychological violence, suffering injuries, disabilities and death, because countries have failed to follow established strategies to protect them.The number is increasing in every nations over the world.

This report is published by the World Health Organization ( WHO), UNICEF, UNESCO, the Special Representative of the United  Nation Secretary-General on Violence against Children and the end Violence Partnership.

''Three is never any excuses for violence against children, ''said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. '' We have evidence-based tools to prevent it, which we urge all countries to implement. Protecting the health and well-being of children is central to protecting our collective health and well-being, now and for the future.''

The report - Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020 - is the first of its kind, charting progress in 155 countries against the ''INSPIRE'' framework, a set of seven strategies for preventing and responding to violence against children. The report signals a clear need in all countries to scale up effort to implement them, While nearly all countries( 88%) have key laws in place to protect children against violence less than half of countries ( 47%) said these were being strongly enforced.

The report includes the first ever global homicide estimates specially for children under 18 years of age - previous estimates were based on data included 19 to 19 year old. It finds that, in 2017, around 40,000 children were victims for homicide.

'' Violence against children has always been pervasive and now things could be getting much worse,'' said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore. '' Lockdowns, school closures and movement restrictions have left far too many children stuck with their abusers, without the safe space that school would normally after.It is urgent to scale up efforts to protect children during these times and beyond, including by designating social service workers as essentials and strengthening child helplines.''
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