The inaugural Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children will be held on November 7-8, 2024, in Bogotá, Colombia. This landmark event to secure new political and financial commitments to prevent and end violence against children is co-led by the governments of Colombia and Sweden, and organized in collaboration with WHO, UNICEF, and the SRSG-VAC. TfG and the Brave Movement are honored to participate. See our:

Learn about our policy, advocacy, and campaigns for the conference

Together for Girls and the Brave Movement will mobilize advocacy efforts to influence the National Preparation Sessions ahead of the conference to secure national-level commitments to prevent and end childhood sexual violence, establish survivor consultation councils and implement critical data- and evidence-gathering initiatives, such as the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys (VACS).

Learn more about our policy positions and calls to action for Member States:

Our policy position in English, Spanish, and Portuguese
Our call to action for governments and technology companies to create a safe digital world for children

Childhood is in our Hands campaign

Learn more about the official 100-day countdown to the Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children.

This campaign was launched on 30 July to mark the 100-day countdown to the Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children and urge governments to end violence against children as part of a united social media push for governments to attend the conference.

It calls for governments to prioritize three breakthrough approaches to have the broadest and most enduring impact:

Parent and caregiver support to prevent abuse and neglect while promoting safe, stable and nurturing relationships.
Universal access to safe and enabling school environments.
Response and support services that are accessible to all children who need them.

Take part in the Childhood is in our Hands campaign

On 17 September, the In Our Hands campaign launched its open letter to world leaders to take bold action at the Global Ministerial. The letter was signed by numerous high-profile advocates, survivor leaders, and allies, including several members of the Global Survivor Council.

Read and share the open letter

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Global Survivor Council

The Brave Movement has been tasked by the Global Ministerial with developing the official guidance notes on engaging survivors at the Conference and leading the coordination of a Global Survivor Council (GSC) via an open application process.

The GSC brings together individuals from survivor-led networks across the globe, who can speak to all forms of violence against children. It will play a crucial role in ensuring continuous survivor engagement in the design and delivery of the conference as well as the final political declaration.

Lydia Matioli

Programs & Partnerships Director, Freely in Hope

Dr. Bukola Ogunkua

Public health physician, researcher, and child trauma expert

"Child sexual abuse survivor calls on Executive to attend international conference on violence against children" by Belfast Live, featuring Global Survivor Council Michelle Duffy.

Michelle Duffy

Social worker and award-winning children and young people’s trauma therapist

Anonymous survivors on the Global Survivors Council

The Brave Movement is committed to the healing and safety of GSC members. This includes the ability for members to engage anonymously. Anonymous engagement empowers GSC members to bring their expertise and contribute to policy development, strategic advisement, and other key council discussions without revealing their personal information or location.

Three members of the GSC are participating anonymously and are not displayed here.

Break the Record campaign

With over 120 countries attending, we’ll attempt to break the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the most countries represented at a childhood violence summit at the first-ever Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children.

Together, we can also break an even more important record: The world’s record of inaction against childhood sexual violence. In the last year, 82 million girls and 69 million boys have experienced some form of sexual violence globally. This is approximately 3 girls and 2 boys per second.

In a first-of-its-kind approach, Together for Girls and partners have created a book called ‘Break the Record’ to measure and understand childhood sexual violence and offer a practical framework to end it.

This data is essential to inform evidence-based policies and interventions to ultimately end childhood sexual violence.

Your government may be one of the 120 at the first-ever Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children. Use the Break the Record social media toolkit to:

Share world-first data to build awareness of the record number of children experiencing sexual violence.
Share solutions to end childhood sexual violence, for good.
Take action to end childhood sexual violence, and encourage others to do so.

Visit www.BreakTheRecord.org to read the book and learn how you can take action to help us end childhood sexual violence for good.

Our Break the Record partners

Break the Record contains world-first data on the prevalence of sexual violence against children globally, launched by Unicef with support from Together for Girls and our partners, as well as unique data compiled by Together for Girls in collaboration with the World Health Organization, Georgia State University, China Agricultural University, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the University of Edinburgh.

Our events

Together for Girls and the Brave Movement will be co-hosting and taking part in several events at and around the Global Ministerial Conference:

October 18, 2024: Satellite event - Child and Youth Meet-Up - Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children - Joint event with Brave Movement, Restless Development and Global Fund for Children.
November 5, 2024: Satellite event - Ending Child, Early and Forced Marriages and Unions is Achievable – Joint event with Plan International, Girls Not Brides, Government of Kenya, and World Vision. Registration link (in-person attendance)
November 6, 2024: Satellite event & reception: Safe Digital Futures for Children – Joint event with We Protect Alliance and Safe Online.
November 6, 2024: Satellite event: Ending Violence is Education’s Business Too: Galvanizing cross-sectoral partnerships to end violence in and through education – A Safe to Learn Coalition event.
November 8, 2024: Official side event: Childhood Sexual Violence - Joint event with To Zero.