A/HRC/40/50 campaign, enhanced online reporting hotlines, and child-sensitive approaches to assist and ensure the reintegration of victims and to bring an end to impunity. 34. To share knowledge and mobilize expertise and financial resources for implementation of the 2030 Agenda, the Special Representative actively engages in strategic partnerships, including the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children, the Global Alliance to Eradicate Forced Labour, Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Child Labour (Alliance 8.7), the Global Alliance for Reporting Progress on Promoting Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, the Task Force on Justice, and the Global Youth Partnership for the Sustainable Development Goals. 35. The developments outlined above are significant. But the urgent need to ensure children’s protection from violence has not diminished. Every five minutes, a child dies because of violence. Every year, at least 1 billion children – half the world’s children – suffer violence. They are intentionally targeted in politically driven processes, manipulated by organized crime, forced to flee armed and gang violence, sold and exploited for economic gain, groomed online, disciplined by violent means, sexually assaulted in the privacy of their homes, neglected in institutions, abused in detention centres, bullied in schools and in sports facilities, and stigmatized and tortured due to superstitious beliefs or harmful practices, including as a result of witchcraft accusations. 36. This is, however, not a fate. With the implementation of the Convention and the 2030 Agenda, children’s freedom from violence can be placed at the heart of the policy agenda of every nation, helping to prevent the risk of violence in children’s lives and providing effective support to child victims. B. Supporting national implementation of the 2030 Agenda: towards a world free from fear and from violence 37. Implementation of the 2030 Agenda requires States to adopt and implement a comprehensive, integrated, multidisciplinary and time-bound strategy to prevent and respond to all forms of violence. National strategies should be informed by solid evidence and robust, reliable and disaggregated data, supported by predictable resources, and monitored and evaluated in a periodic and transparent way. The recommendations of the United Nations study on violence against children provide a sound reference for national implementation efforts, and they helped inform the development of INSPIRE, 13 a technical support package that uses the best available evidence on effective strategies to end violence against children. 38. Member States are encouraged to mainstream the Sustainable Development Goals targets within national development strategies and related sectoral frameworks and to assess progress through participatory, transparent and integrated processes of follow-up and review. They are urged to conduct regular and inclusive voluntary national reviews of progress at the national and subnational levels. The voluntary national reviews facilitate the sharing of experiences in implementation of the 2030 Agenda with a view to accelerating progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. 39. The high-level political forum on sustainable development provides a strategic platform to advance progress in children’s protection from violence, and this topic has increasingly gained attention. The Ministerial Declaration from the 2018 forum with the theme of “transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies” 14 expressed strong commitment to placing children at the heart of the 2030 Agenda. It recognized that developing human capital for sustainable and resilient societies begins by investing in children, adolescents and youth and ensuring they grew up free from all forms of violence. It also emphasized the importance of children as critical agents of change and their meaningful participation in implementation – particularly the most vulnerable. 13 14 8 See www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/inspire/en/. E/HLS/2018/1.