Together, we are

BUILDING COLLECTIVE YOUTH-LED ACTION TOWARD A VIOLENCE-FREE FUTURE

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The Reality

1 Billion Children

Over half of the world's population of children are subjected to physical, sexual, and emotional violence every year. In homes, schools, online, and communities — violence follows children everywhere they go.

Violence against children is a public health crisis.

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Health consequences of violence against children

What is VEWU

Our Network

Violence Ends With Us is a regional youth-led movement dedicated to children, young people, and survivors across the Asia-Pacific.

We unite voices and efforts from over 20 countries to …

20+

Countries

500+

Youth Leaders

Ongoing Initiatives

Asia-Pacific network map showing countries with VEWU presence

Our Beacons of Action

The key areas where we turn vision into impact.

Youth Action & Innovation

We turn youth ideas into action by supporting young people to design, lead, and grow practical solutions that prevent and respond to violence in their communities.

Advocacy & Systems Change

We bring youth priorities, lived realities, and community-led solutions into the spaces where decisions are made, commitments are shaped, and systems can be held accountable.

Storytelling & Solidarity

We amplify young people's voices, stories, creative expression, and collective calls for a violence-free future, building solidarity across communities and countries.

Community & Leadership Building

We grow a regional community of Lightkeepers who are connected, equipped, and supported to learn, lead, and take collective action in ways that reflect their capacities and communities.

Guiding Lights

The Principles That Illuminate Our Path Forward

Intergenerational Collaboration

We believe youth leadership is strengthened through respectful partnership with children, survivors, adults, communities, technical experts, organisations, and institutions working toward the same future.

Youth Power

We, as young people, believe we should not just be included in the work to end violence; we should shape its direction, hold leadership, make decisions, and build the movement from within.

Radical Inclusion

We make intentional space for young people across different countries, identities, abilities, communities, lived experiences, and forms of leadership — especially those most often left out or spoken for.

Bridges Across Borders

We connect young people across Asia and the Pacific so ideas, stories, resources, and support can move across countries, communities, and lived realities.

Participation with Care

We create spaces where young people can take part with respect, informed choice, consent, and support — especially when the work involves lived experience, personal stories, or difficult realities.

Courageous Hope

We practise hope as a brave and active choice: refusing to accept violence as inevitable, and choosing to organise, create, advocate, and build safer futures together.