Violence against children during the COVID-19 pandemic Amiya Bhatia, Camilla Fabbri, Ilan Cerna-Turoff, Ellen Turner, Michelle Lokot, Ajwang Warria, Sumnima Tuladhar, Clare Tanton, Louise Knight, Shelley Lees, Beniamino Cislaghi, Jaqueline Bhabha, Amber Peterman, Alessandra Guedes, and Karen Devries
By: Bhatia, Amiya
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Contributor(s): Fabbri, Camilla | Cerna-Turoff, Ilan | Turner, Ellen | Lokot, Michelle | Warria, Ajwang | Tuladhar, Sumnima | Tantori, Clare | Knight, Louise | Lees, Shelley | Cislaghi, Beniamino | Bhabha, Jaqueline | Peterman, Amber | Guedes, Alessandra | Devries, Karen.
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BookSeries: Bulletin of the World Health Organization.Publisher: WHO, 2021Subject(s): CHILD ABUSE | CHILD NEGLECT | CHILD PROTECTION | CHILD WELFARE | COVID-19 | INTERAGENCY COLLABORATION | INTERVENTION | PANDEMICS | PREVENTION | INTERNATIONALOnline resources: DOI: 10.2471%2FBLT.20.283051 (Open access) | INSPIRE handbook
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2021, 99(10): 730–738Summary: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected children’s risk of violence in their homes, communities and online, and has compromised the ability of child protection systems to promptly detect and respond to cases of violence. However, the need to strengthen violence prevention and response services has received insufficient attention in national and global pandemic response and mitigation strategies. In this paper, we summarize the growing body of evidence on the links between the pandemic and violence against children. Drawing on the World Health Organization’s INSPIRE framework to end violence against children, we illustrate how the pandemic is affecting prevention and response efforts. For each of the seven INSPIRE strategies we identify how responses to the pandemic have changed children’s risk of violence. We offer ideas for how governments, policy-makers, and international and civil society organizations can address violence in the context of a protracted COVID-19 crisis. We conclude by highlighting how the current pandemic offers opportunities to improve existing child protection systems to address violence against children. We suggest enhanced multisectoral coordination across the health, education, law enforcement, housing, child and social protection sectors. Actions need to prioritize the primary prevention of violence and promote the central role of children and adolescents in decision-making and programme design processes. Finally, we stress the continued need for better data and evidence to inform violence prevention and response strategies that can be effective during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. (Authors' abstract).
Drawing on the seven strategies of the INSPIRE framework, the authors illustrate how the COVID-19 pandemic affected violence against children and provide examples of possible response strategies based on experiences from different countries and organisations - follow the link to the INSPIRE handbook. Record #7325
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2021, 99(10): 730–738.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected children’s risk of violence in their homes, communities and online, and has compromised the ability of child protection systems to promptly detect and respond to cases of violence. However, the need to strengthen violence prevention and response services has received insufficient attention in national and global pandemic response and mitigation strategies. In this paper, we summarize the growing body of evidence on the links between the pandemic and violence against children. Drawing on the World Health Organization’s INSPIRE framework to end violence against children, we illustrate how the pandemic is affecting prevention and response efforts. For each of the seven INSPIRE strategies we identify how responses to the pandemic have changed children’s risk of violence. We offer ideas for how governments, policy-makers, and international and civil society organizations can address violence in the context of a protracted COVID-19 crisis. We conclude by highlighting how the current pandemic offers opportunities to improve existing child protection systems to address violence against children. We suggest enhanced multisectoral coordination across the health, education, law enforcement, housing, child and social protection sectors. Actions need to prioritize the primary prevention of violence and promote the central role of children and adolescents in decision-making and programme design processes. Finally, we stress the continued need for better data and evidence to inform violence prevention and response strategies that can be effective during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. (Authors' abstract).
Drawing on the seven strategies of the INSPIRE framework, the authors illustrate how the COVID-19 pandemic affected violence against children and provide examples of possible response strategies based on experiences from different countries and organisations - follow the link to the INSPIRE handbook. Record #7325
