Save the Children, an international charity, talks about "galvanising political leadership" behind the effort.
Jane Frances, policy adviser for the charity, talks of the huge effect of appearance bullying and the damage it does to children's education.
Now she works as a peer educator for the charity, talking to other young girls in the slum who find themselves in the same position she was in.
Different panels took place throughout the day focusing on different global issues as journalists and activists spoke with people either in the field of politics or in charities talking about their work.
He was a Stonewall founder but a decade ago he also accepted an invitation to start visiting schools on behalf of the charity to talk about homophobic bullying, a much more radical suggestion then than it sounds now.
And across the board, charity leaders talk of public attitudes hardening, with greater suspicion of anyone who relies on public-funded support, be they disabled, mentally ill or unlucky enough to be raised as a child in a "feckless" family.
After that, the charity will talk through future options and, depending on where they are in the UK, direct them to other services.
A charity leader talked about the role of volunteering.
Sebastián Mora, secretary-general of a Roman Catholic charity, Caritas, talks of a crisis of despair.
Charities that talk up gay rights, prison reform or abolishing the death penalty are accused of serving Western interests.
JF The danger with your argument is that charities only talk to people like themselves, who already believe.
