When adopting the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Member States decided to undertake thematic reviews of progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including cross-cutting issues.
In the world today, almost one child out of five lives in extreme poverty; yet only 35 percent of children worldwide benefit from effective access to social protection programmes. Social protection systems and child welfare address poverty through social insurance and social assistance. Child protection programmes, with policies focused on children’s wellbeing, shares similar goals.
Dr. Joanna Rubinstein, President and CEO of World Childhood Foundation (WCF) USA, joins Yale Professor James F. Leckman in a discussion on the new groundbreaking report by The Economist Intelligence Unit “Out of the Shadows Index”. This benchmarking tool, developed with support from the WCF, the Oak and Carlson Family Foundations, helps countries track their progress toward reaching Sustainable Development Goal target 16.2: ”ending abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against, and torture of, children by 2030.” Learn about the free mobile app “Stewards of Children Prevention Toolkit”, and how to keep children safe and end child sexual abuse.
Read the 2019 Wiley online editorial by James F. Leckman, MD, PhD and Joanna Rubinstein “Not just in Philadelphia - But across the globe”
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