A/71/206 89. These important conclusions were endorsed at the fourth ministerial meeting of the South Asia Initiative to End Violence against Children, hosted by the Government of India, which reiterated the important role of the Initiative in promoting progress in the violence against children agenda in South Asia. 90. The Special Representative’s collaboration with the Council of Europe has been crucial to strengthening children’s freedom from violence across the region. The Council has been a driver of regional initiatives to promot e the implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations study and to support the Special Representative’s mandate. 91. In March 2016, the Committee of Ministers adopted the Council’s new Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016-2021), which had been developed with the participation of the Special Representative. Children’s freedom from violence is at the heart of the new Strategy and is mainstreamed in actions with regard to the protection of children from online abuse; the promotion of child pa rticipation; the development of child-friendly justice; the prevention of the deprivation of liberty and promotion of diversion; and support for equal opportunities for all children. 92. The Strategy is designed to support the implementation of the 2030 Ag enda and presents important opportunities to strengthen the Special Representative’s cooperation with the Council and to enhance support to member States in their efforts to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and accelerate progress towards reaching target 16.2. This includes supporting the enactment of legislation to ban all forms of violence and establish child -friendly counselling, reporting and complaint mechanisms to address incidents of violence; developing integrated national strategies on the protection of children from violence and identifying strategic indicators to monitor progress towards reaching target 16.2; and supporting the Council of Europe in its role as a clearing house to enable access to sound data and experiences and as a platform for peer support among Governments. IV. Monitoring places of detention to prevent and address violence against children 93. To mobilize support and evidence for the global study on children deprived of liberty, the Special Representative organized with UNICEF a regional conference on oversight, inspection and monitoring of places where children are deprived of liberty in the framework of the criminal justice system. 94. Leading human rights experts, including the Special Rapporteur on torture an d other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and the Rapporteur on the Rights of the Child of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, participated at the meeting, as did government representatives, national human rights institutions, UNICEF child protection officers, non-governmental organizations and academics from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Uruguay. 95. At the conference, held in Buenos Aires, participants identified legislative and institutional developments in Latin America and good practices and challenges in the monitoring and inspection of places of detention and in the promotion of 18/23 16-12906