“Now, several months into the pandemic, researchers across the globe are attempting to find out how the health and socioeconomic crisis brought about by the coronavirus is affecting children’s exposure to violence.”
READ the article by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fiore (30 October 2020).
“Understanding the current status of violence prevention and response services is therefore essential to assessing risks to children. A new UNICEF publication, Protecting Children from Violence in the Time of COVID-19: Disruptions in prevention and response services, documents what has happened to such services across the world.”
“This real-time emergent learning brief draws on evidence from current country experiences and identifies emerging mental health risks; highlights programme responses and adaptations; and outlines key points for programming, advocacy and systems change. ”
Join ECPC affiliate, Dr. Catherine Panter-Brick, Professor of Anthropology, Health and Global Affairs at Yale University on 19 May at 1 PM BST / 8 AM ET, who will present on her research on building resilience in children and families living in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
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