The Study is supported by a number of partners with interests in the different subjects and areas of expertise relevant to violence against children. These partners contribute in various ways - by hosting expert and thematic meetings, conducting studies, promoting events, and other activities that provide information and mobilise around the study.

The study relies on the expertise and research undertaken by three United Nations agencies that compose the Coordinating Committee:

  The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
  The United Nations Children’s Fund
  The World Health Organization

Other organizations within the United Nations System and other international institutions directly cooperate with the study development:

  Innocenti Research Center
  The International Labour Organization
  The Inter-parliamentary Union
  The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
  The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
  The United Nations University
  The World Bank
  UNAIDS
  Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography
  Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict
  UN Special Session on Children
  United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women

Human rights organs and bodies and regional human rights mechanisms motivated the study development and are core sources of information:

  Commission on Human Rights
  Committee on the Rights of the Child
  Council of Europe
  Inter American Commission on Human Rights
  Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
  The Office of the European Commissioner for Human Rights
  African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

National human rights institutions including ombudsmen and commissioners for children are contributors for the assessment of national level activities.

  The National Human Rights Institutions Forum

NGOs and civil society have participated in various activities from the very early stages of the establishment of the study, submitting information and promoting processes related to the study.

  African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect
  Child Helpline International
  COAV - Children in Organized Armed Violence
  CRIN - Child Rights Information Network
  DCI - Defense for Children International
  ECPAT - End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes
  Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
  Human Rights Watch
  International Committee of the Red Cross
  ISPCAN - International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
  Plan International
  NGO’s Advisory Panel
  NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child
  Red latino americana y caribeña por la defensa de los derechos de los niños, niñas y adolescentes
  Save the Children
  Sexual Violence Research Initiative
  SOS Children’s villages
  The World Scout Bureau
  Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children

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