ABSTRACT
In this conversation the author talks with Benjamin Perks, the head of campaigns and advocacy at UNICEF global Headquarters in New York. For the first part of my career the focus was very much on essential humanitarian support for child survival and education and protection issues in conflict zones, for example, a massive schooling programme after the Taliban regime had collapsed in Afghanistan or the demobilization of child soldiers. It is, but we're still working very much to make that an international conversation. So, in my experience in some countries that I've worked in, they've never had a conversation about child neglect or sexual abuse. I've been in countries that we have opened the first public conversation about violence against children or emotional neglect. Now we're opening up a pathway to have a conversation about childhood emotional poverty as a major driver of inequality, alongside economic poverty and exclusion.
