The Global Initiative and Save the Children are delighted to present a new briefing examining progress towards prohibition of all violent punishment of children in West and Central Africa. Designed to support national action, the briefing sets out what needs to be done to achieve prohibition in each state and highlights any immediate opportunities for reform. The adoption of commitments to end all violence against children – including specifically corporal punishment – in Africa’s Agenda for Children 2040 and the global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, provide additional and immediate contexts for focussing attention on fulfilling this most fundamental obligation under human rights law.

Read the briefing in English and French.

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The briefing highlights prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment as a key strategy in achieving target 16.2 – end all violence against children – as well as health and education related targets under the global 2030 Agenda, and aspirations under Africa’s Agenda for Children 2040: Fostering an Africa Fit for Children.

Designed to support advocacy, the leaflet is packed with facts and figures tracking progress (and delay) towards prohibition in Africa, and calls on African governments to fulfil their obligation under international and regional human rights law by prohibiting all corporal punishment of children.

Download the leaflet in English or French.

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The briefing emphasies that ending violent punishment of children is fundamental to creating the “world free of fear and violence … of universal respect for human rights and human dignity” envisaged by the 2030 Agenda, and highlights the recognition of the importance of the issue signalled by the adoption of SDG target on 16.2 on ending violence against children and indicator 16.2.1 on the prevalence of violent punishment. At the Forum, 22 states will undergo voluntary national reviews of progress on the SDGs. For each of the states, the briefing sets out the law reform that is necessary in order to achieve prohibition of corporal punishment in all settings and the latest information on the prevalence of corporal punishment.

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Designed for advocacy use, the briefing highlights the human rights imperative to prohibit all violent punishment of children in all Caribbean states and territories. For each Caribbean state and territory, it summarises the progress made towards prohibition and what remains to be done. Aiming to promote national action for prohibition, it emphasises the many immediate opportunities for working to fulfil children’s right to protection in law from all corporal punishment in the penal system, care settings, schools and the family home.

Download the briefing here. To request hard copies, contact us at info@endcorporalpunishment.org.

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These facts and more are graphically illustrated in the updated leaflet “Prohibiting all corporal punishment of children in Africa: progress and delay”. The briefing lists some of the states in which governments are most resistant to reform, including those where judicial corporal punishment – caning, flogging or whipping – is lawful as a sentence for crime under state, religious and/or traditional systems of justice. It summarises research which shows the appalling levels of punitive violence experienced by children in Africa. Designed to encourage urgent action, the briefing emphasises immediate opportunities for prohibiting corporal punishment in around 42 African states.

Download the briefing here (available in English and French).

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This new briefing from the Global Initiative summarises progress to date towards prohibiting corporal punishment in ASEAN member states, identifies the law reform necessary in each state to achieve full prohibition and the current opportunities for doing so. It has been prepared for circulation at two high profile meetings being held this month in the Philippines – the Regional Consultation on the Elimination of Violence against Children and Improved Public Investment on Children on 15-16 October, organised by Child Rights Coalition Asia, and the 11^th meeting of the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC), 18-20 October.

The adoption globally of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its target of ending all violence against children provides a new and immediate context for focussing attention in all regions on what can be done to speed progress towards fulfilling this most fundamental obligation under human rights law.

The briefing is available for download here.

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Ending violent punishment of children – a foundation of a world free from fear and violence calls for the adoption of two global indicators on violent punishment under SDG target 16.2, which aims to end all forms of violence against children. The first proposed global indicator is on elimination of violent punishment – Percentage of children aged 0-17 years who experienced any physical punishment by caregivers in the past month – and the second is on prohibition – Violent punishment of children is prohibited in all settings of children’s lives including the family home. The briefing highlights that these indicators are highly suitable and relevant and entirely feasible, as easily adaptable internationally recognized data sets already exist. It emphasises that prohibiting and eliminating violent punishment is key for target 16.2 and highlights the other targets which these indicators would monitor.

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The Global Initiative has produced a new briefing, “Young children’s right to an end to all violent punishment.”

Young children are among the most likely to experience corporal punishment and are most vulnerable to its many negative effects. Yet despite widespread concern about violence against young children in the home and elsewhere, the legal and social acceptance of violent punishment is rarely highlighted in child protection work in the early childhood sector. Similarly, the legality and practice of violent punishment is seldom explicitly addressed in the promotion of early childhood care and education services or in efforts to improve young children’s health and development.

The briefing urges organisations promoting improved conditions for young children to incorporate advocacy for the prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment into their work on violence against children, early childhood care and education, children’s health and development and other related topics.

Download the briefing here.

A limited number of hard copies is available: email info@endcorporalpunishment.org.

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