Our monthly meetings on Protect Girls From Violence and Working Group on Girls covered several areas of concern. The Summer Olympics to take place in London, July - August, 2012,
calls for immediate coalition of groups, working on trafficking prevention, to come together and share strategies to stem violations so common during Olympic Sports events. We have contacted ECPAT and EQUALITY NOW to learn of their plans and will be following their lead as suggested. Another ongoing activity is joining with other UN Agencies, Private Sector, and other NGO's, as Olympics, 2014 in Brazil, is being planned. One goal, among many, will be to use social media to embarrass any commercial firm, hotel, or tourist agency that promotes sexual access to the Games. The WGG meeting looked forward to CSW 57, the theme of which will be once again, "Protecting Children Against Violence"; we did brainstorming of all possibilites which included inviting role models from grassroots to celebrity levels. We continue to consult UNICEF on their Strategic Areas of concern which are: assisting deprived children, reducing harmful practices, i.e. FGM, Child Marriage, Children in Armed Conflct, among others.
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