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Caroline Baan - Uganda - World Children Day Youth Voices 2025
Journalists and Writers Foundation JWF#WorldChildrensDay2025 “Every year, 300 million children are victims of technology-facilitated sexual abuse and exploitation. Globally, 1 billion children experience physical, sexual, or emotional neglect and abuse. These numbers are not just statistics, they reveal an urgent, ongoing crisis. They remind us that child protection cannot be a one-day effort. It requires constant, collective action from all of us: adults, communities, NGOs, institutions, and leaders. We must ask ourselves: What are we doing to keep children safe? Child safety is everyone’s responsibility. In many communities, chiRead moreShow less
#WorldChildrensDay2025
“Every year, 300 million children are victims of technology-facilitated sexual abuse and exploitation. Globally, 1 billion children experience physical, sexual, or emotional neglect and abuse. These numbers are not just statistics, they reveal an urgent, ongoing crisis. They remind us that child protection cannot be a one-day effort. It requires constant, collective action from all of us: adults, communities, NGOs, institutions, and leaders.
We must ask ourselves: What are we doing to keep children safe?
Child safety is everyone’s responsibility.
In many communities, child marriage, exploitation, and abuse continue in silence. As NGOs and community members, we must raise awareness, protect children, challenge harmful norms, and ensure every child grows up in safety and dignity.
Every child deserves protection, without exception.”
- Caroline, Uganda
#YourVoiceMatters #MyDayMyRights
“Every year, 300 million children are victims of technology-facilitated sexual abuse and exploitation. Globally, 1 billion children experience physical, sexual, or emotional neglect and abuse. These numbers are not just statistics, they reveal an urgent, ongoing crisis. They remind us that child protection cannot be a one-day effort. It requires constant, collective action from all of us: adults, communities, NGOs, institutions, and leaders.
We must ask ourselves: What are we doing to keep children safe?
Child safety is everyone’s responsibility.
In many communities, child marriage, exploitation, and abuse continue in silence. As NGOs and community members, we must raise awareness, protect children, challenge harmful norms, and ensure every child grows up in safety and dignity.
Every child deserves protection, without exception.”
- Caroline, Uganda
#YourVoiceMatters #MyDayMyRights
