Objectives

The objectives of the Association is to support professionals in the sectors concerned to achieve the following:

1) Enhance the knowledge and skills of professionals who deal with children in general and who deal with children exposed to risk factors and children who have been exposed to violence and professionals who provide treatment, rehabilitation and social integration services.
2) Adopting systematic and multisectoral frameworks at the national level in all Arab countries to address violence against children.
3) Ban all forms of violence against children in the legislation of Arab States, ensure accountability and end impunity for perpetrators.
4) Adopting and supporting Arab countries’ efforts to provide protection, treatment and rehabilitation services to victims and their families.
5) Ensure that child violence reporting systems and services are accessible and appropriate for their age.
6) Develop and implement systematic systems to collect national data on violence against children and conduct research in prevention and protection from Violence against children.
7) Primary prevention of violence by addressing its roots and causes, and changing prevailing cultures that condone violence against children.