A/HRC/52/61 27. The Special Representative has continued to contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of regional plans and frameworks related to children’s protection from violence, such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Plan of Action on the Elimination of Violence against Children and the Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2022–2027). She also engaged with the European Parliament and the European Commission on various legislative initiatives relevant to the protection of children and their rights. The Special Representative supported the integration of the protection and participation of children in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and voluntary national review processes at the regional level, such as through the Community of Practice on Voluntary National Reviews for Latin American and Caribbean countries. 28. The Special Representative has used her engagement with regional and subregional mechanisms to focus attention and share experience on dimensions of violence against children which are of particular relevance to the region. One key example in this regard has been her engagement on climate change. In this context, the Special Representative participated in the Ninth International Policy Conference on the African Child: Climate Change and Child Rights in Africa – Impact and Accountability, stressing that climate change was a threat multiplier for violence against children, which was the focus of her annual report to the General Assembly. 12 In addition, she contributed to the interactive session on “Children’s right to participate in climate action”, convened in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, during the twenty-seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. She has also addressed the regional and subregional dimensions of the displacement of children due to conflicts, the climate crisis and ongoing humanitarian crises; gender-based violence, including child marriage and female genital mutilation; the violence and discrimination faced by children on the move; and children’s access to justice. 29. The Special Representative has engaged with regional partners in the development and dissemination of practical tools for tackling violence. These include a guidebook for correcting negative expressions and images circulating around children in the Arab media in collaboration with the Arab Council for Childhood and Development, the Arab Gulf Programme for Development and the League of Arab States, as well as the launch, during the regional Arab Girls’ Summit, of a report on the impact of cyberviolence on children and youth. Close cooperation with United Nations and international organizations 30. As Chair of the Inter-Agency Working Group on Violence against Children, the Special Representative convenes regular meetings for information-sharing and the implementation of joint road maps with United Nations partners. In addition, she convenes meetings on specific themes, the most recent of which focused on the strengthening of child safeguarding mechanisms in sport, including through an engagement with sporting federations. Efforts continue to advance the development of a Secretary-General’s guidance note on mainstreaming of child rights by the beginning of 2023. 31. The Special Representative has deepened her strong collaboration with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, issuing joint statements and pursuing joint advocacy on situations of relevance to the three mandates. These include children being trafficked or going missing as a result of the conflict in Ukraine.. The three mandate holders share information on country visits and aim towards ensuring complementary action in response to the continuum of violence over the periods before, during and after conflicts. 32. The Special Representative mobilized partners from the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to issue a joint advocacy brief calling on Member States to protect the rights of children on the move in times of crisis. The brief, which builds on lessons learned from past and ongoing crises worldwide and outlines 12 GE.22-29128 A/77/221. 7