Pathfinding Global Alliance

The Pathfinding Global Alliance was launched during the first Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children, 2024, by the UN’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children.

It convenes countries and all relevant stakeholders committed to accelerating efforts to end all forms of violence against children by 2030 and beyond, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and child rights standards. Through a cross-sectoral and multistakeholder approach, it involves States, regional and subregional organizations, UN entities, civil society organizations, faith-based organizations, the private sector, development partners, experts, academia, the media, local communities, survivors, children, and youth. 

Of the 60 countries represented in this 2026 version of the index 27 have joined the Pathfinding Global Alliance: Angola Brazil Burkina Faso Cambodia Canada Colombia Cote d'Ivoire El Salvador Ethiopia France Indonesia Jamaica Japan Kenya Mexico Mongolia Nigeria Peru Philippines Romania South Africa Sri Lanka Sweden Tanzania Türkiye Uganda UAE Uzbekistan

All 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) affect the lives of children in one way or another. Children's wellbeing and protection from violence is a cross-sector agenda and goes beyond SDG 16.2.

SDG targets that directly address violence against children

Target 4.a:

A safe and non-violence environment for education

Target 5.1:

End all forms of discrimination against women and girls everywhere

Target 5.2:

Eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (including sexual and other exploitation)

Target 5.3:

Eliminate harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage, and female genital mutilation

Target 8.7:

Eliminate all forms of child labour

Target 16.1:

Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere.

Target 16.2:

End abuse, exploitation, trafficking, and all forms of violence and torture against children.

 

 

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