Brazilian Coalition to End Violence against Children and Adolescents

About the organization

The Brazilian Coalition to End Violence against Children and Adolescents is a national, non-partisan, secular, and independent civil society articulation, formed by more than 80 entities, universities, collectives, movements, and networks that work in the prevention of and response to violence against children and adolescents throughout the country. It emerged in 2017, when it mobilized the Brazilian government’s accession to the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, a 2016 UN initiative. As a result of this articulation, in 2018 Brazil joined the Global Partnership as a pathfinding country, renewing its commitment in 2024 and consolidating the Coalition as a space for political advocacy, production of evidence to inform public and regulatory policies for the prevention of and response to all types of violence against children and adolescents.

Socioeconomic Context

Violence against children and adolescents in Brazil occurs in a context of persistent social, racial, and territorial inequalities. Although the country has reduced poverty, its impacts remain disproportionately concentrated in childhood: in 2024, 39.7% of children and adolescents aged 0 to 14 lived below the poverty line, compared to 23.1% of the general population. UNICEF data also show that, in 2023, 28.8 million children and adolescents—55.9% of the population aged 0 to 17—faced at least one rights deprivation, especially related to sanitation, income, housing, or education.

According to the 20th Brazilian Public Security Yearbook, 2,079 intentional violent deaths of children and adolescents were recorded in 2025, a reduction of 10.8% compared to 2024. The drop, although positive, did not change the structural pattern of lethal violence: adolescents aged 12 to 17 represented 88.5% of the victims; among them, 90.9% were boys and 86.3% were Black. Territorial inequalities are also significant: while the national rate was 4.1 deaths per 100,000 children and adolescents, it reached 11.3 in Bahia, 9.0 in Amapá, and 8.9 in Ceará.

Non-lethal violence remains at high levels and presents new dynamics. In 2025, 61,076 cases of rape and statutory rape, 38,986 cases of ill-treatment, and 21,811 occurrences of bodily injury in the context of domestic violence against children and adolescents were recorded. Although rape reports decreased by 5.5%, reports of ill-treatment grew by 14.6% and those of abandonment of a vulnerable person by 18.5%. Technology-mediated violence also advanced: records of production, possession, or distribution of child sexual abuse material grew by 176.7% between 2021 and 2025, while cases of child grooming for sexual purposes increased by 12.4% between 2024 and 2025.

Despite this scenario, public policies still concentrate resources on emergency and reparative responses, while preventive strategies remain underfunded, fragmented, and poorly incorporated into budget planning. Information is scattered among health, education, social assistance, public security, and justice systems, with gaps in coverage, integration, and disaggregation. It is, therefore, urgent to strengthen integrated prevention and response policies, expand and qualify the production and use of data, evaluate programs and practices, and guide public investments by evidence, with attention to racial, social, and territorial inequalities.

Project Objective

Institutional Support: With the common goal of eradicating various forms of violence against children and adolescents in Brazil, the project seeks to influence the formulation and execution of federal budget laws (PPA, LDO, and LOA) to expand and qualify public investment in policies to prevent violence against children and adolescents, promoting the adoption of evidence-based strategies, especially the INSPIRE technical package, and structuring an articulated, intersectoral national policy with continued funding, capable of reducing risk factors and strengthening the comprehensive protection of children and adolescents in Brazil.

Monitoring of Strategies to End Violence against Children and Adolescents (Phase 1 INSPIRE Project): the objective of the project is to adapt and structure, for the Brazilian context, a set of indicators based on the INSPIRE technical package that allows for more qualified monitoring of violence against children and adolescents and guides evidence-based prevention and response public policies. To this end, the document seeks to organize national data, broaden the understanding of risk and protection factors, give visibility to still underreported violence, and offer a technical basis for government and civil society to monitor progress, gaps, and priorities in tackling violence in Brazil.

INSPIRE Brazil Platform (Phase II Inspire Project): The objective of the project is to develop a national monitoring dashboard for indicators of violence against children and adolescents, adapted to the Brazilian context, and offer technical assistance to the federal government so that this evidence is used in the planning, implementation, and qualification of public policies for the prevention of and response to violence. To this end, the proposal provides for organizing and standardizing the databases already selected in Phase I, with disaggregations by race/color, age, gender, and region; developing an interactive dashboard with dynamic analysis functionalities, report generation, and a public access information panel; stimulating the interoperability and sustainability of population databases and the dashboard, with continuous update and management routines; and training technical teams for the strategic use of data, promoting analytical autonomy and supporting the planning and improvement of public policies.

Dialogue with public policies

The Coalition provides for continuous dialogue with the public authorities, acting both in the strengthening and qualification of existing policies and in advocacy for the creation, regulation, and improvement of laws and budget guidelines. Its activities include participation in public hearings, production of technical and positioning notes to support regulations, monitoring of bills, mobilization of civil society, and advocacy in public planning and financing, with the aim of ensuring that the prevention of violence against children and adolescents is incorporated in a structured, intersectoral, evidence-based manner, with adequate governance, technical capacity, and secured public resources.

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