Haruv annual report 2021

CHILD MALTREATMENT PREVENTION INITIATIVEs

THE ISRAELI INDEPENDENT PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE Yearlong Partner: Tel Aviv University

Objective: making the voices of childhood victims heard in policy-change proceedings, for the benefit of child victims. The Inquiry began operating July 2020 in collaboration with Haruv Institute. The director of MeHalev - The Child Abuse Prevention Initiative is also a member of the inquiry working to gather testimonies from childhood victims, using the main themes and learning form their experience to promote policy change in the field of prevention, detection and treatment of maltreated children. Testimonies and data gathered will be utilized as means of promoting policy change to improve existing services for sexually abused children. Areas requiring change will be examined and a conclusion report will be produced based upon analysis of these testimonies. In the beginning of 2022 the inquiry report was launched in a festive ceremony, in the presence of President and Mrs. Herzog, the inquiry members and representatives of the activist core of childhood victims who worked with the the inquiry. In addition, deliberation on primary presentation of the report findings to the Knesset committee on child rights was held.

Target audience: policy-makers and professionals

Participants: over 500 childhood victims who gave testimony

Venue: country-wide

Budget: 16,000 ILS

Further information on the project and the inquiry report on Haruv Institute website: https://bit.ly/33qyzK1

Event for the submission of the concluding report of The Israeli Independent Public Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse to the President of the State, December 2021

Retired Judge Nava Ben Or and Prof. Carmit Katz in submitting the report of Inquiry The to the President of the State Mr .Yitzhak Herzog and his wife, December 2021

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