Commit to #ENDviolence: How you and your organization can commit to #ENDviolence against children with disabilities?
  1. Identify which category your organization belongs to: a) UN agencies and other multilateral and bilateral agencies; b) Governments and local child protection authorities; c) Non-governmental, civil society organizations and private sector
  2. Read the action points related to your organization below
  3. Select the action point that your organization will commit to working towards and take note of the corresponding number
  4. Go to the link  PETITION TO #END VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH DISABILITIES. 
  5. Sign the petition: in the name section please provide both your organization’s name and your name; your email address; and in the comments please specify the number of the action point you commit to working on
  6. Share this information with others to commit to #ENDviolence against children and adolescents with disabilities.
  7. NOTE: Should you have any difficulties accessing the platform, please review the Text Only version of the document, following this link and share your commitment response with us by email: [email protected]​​
UN agencies and other multilateral and bilateral agencies commit to:

1.  Build political will to invest in sustainable policies and programs that prevent and address violence, abuse and neglect against children with disabilities, including in humanitarian contexts.  
2. Promote and invest in the inclusion of children and adolescents with disabilities in studies and data collection efforts on violence, abuse and neglect against children.
3.   Mobilize financial and technical support to ensure countries are able to implement inclusive child protection services and end harmful practices against children and adolescents with disabilities.
4.   Develop and sustain campaigns to raise awareness of and to end violence against children and adolescents with disabilities and influence policymakers on regional, national and international levels to do the same.  
5.   Consult with children and adolescents with disabilities and their families to inform inclusive child protection frameworks, policies and programs.  
6.   Cooperate with humanitarian and disability sector actors to ensure that child protection in emergencies mechanisms and interventions are inclusive of and accessible to children and adolescents with disabilities.
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Governments and local child protection authorities commit to:

7. Ensure that children and adolescents with disabilities are included in all laws, policies, programs, budgets and systems that protect children from violence, abuse and neglect.  ​
8.  Include children and adolescents with disabilities in all child protection national surveys and other monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. Gather disability disaggregated data to inform child protection policies, programs, budgets and systems for children. 
9. Invest in free, accessible and high-quality services that prevent and respond to sexual violence against children and adolescents with disabilities. 
10.  Work with Disabled Peoples’ Organizations, civil society partners and the media to prevent and combat stigma and discrimination and to promote a society free from violence against children, including those with disabilities. 
11.  End the institutionalization of all children including those with disabilities to reduce vulnerability to abuse, neglect and other forms of violence. 
12.  Ensure safe, anonymous and accountable complaint and reporting mechanisms for all children, including those with disabilities, to report abuse. 
13.  Educate and inform children and adolescents with disabilities about their rights and about how to secure their protection and identify and avoid abusive behavior. 
Non-governmental, civil society organizations and private sector commit to:
14. Advocate with and support the capacity building of families, educators, health workers, governmental officials, civil society and the law enforcement and judiciary actors to proactively identify protection risks, as well as prevent and/or respond to violence, abuse and neglect of children and adolescents with disabilities.
15.  Advocate for data collection efforts on violence, abuse and neglect against children to include children and adolescents with disabilities by disaggregating data by disability, age and gender, and use this data to inform the planning of initiatives to prevent violence, abuse and neglect.
16. Together with families and communities, advocate for and work with the media to prevent and combat stigma and discrimination and to promote a society free from violence against children and adolescents, including those with disabilities.
17. Advocate for the meaningful participation of children and adolescents with disabilities, as well as of their families, in consultations, planning, implementation and evaluation of inclusive protection programs.   
18. Advocate for and support the development of disability-inclusive child protection responses in emergencies to protect and increase the resilience of children and adolescents with disabilities living in humanitarian contexts.