I am forwarding this valuable message from the UN End Violence partnership which demonstrates progress being made in 2021 in relation to ending corporal punishment of children.
Tony Waterston
CHIFA profile: Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and directed the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He was an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights. He is currently the lead moderator of CHIFA (HIFA's sister forum on child health and rights). He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group.
Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk
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Dear friends and colleagues,
We are near to the end of another year, where again we faced big challenges but also made important progress in ending corporal punishment and all violence against children. We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone for all their work, together our efforts mean that the movement to end violent punishment in childhood becomes stronger every year!
A few highlights from 2021:
· The Republic of Korea<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.en... and Colombia<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.en... enacted laws prohibiting corporal punishment in all settings of children’s lives, meaning that 23 million more children now have legal protection from violent punishment! There was also progress towards prohibition of corporal punishment in schools in Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan and the United States Virgin Islands – further details to come in 2022.
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· April 30 2021 was the first International Day to #EndCorporalPunishment! As well as a high-level international webinar<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D01r_xuICaE&t=4127s> hosted by the Governments of Japan, France and Tunisia, the day included many national events, articles by organisations including the World Bank<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs...., and a Twitter reach of 24 million. And we will do it again in 2022, but this time bigger and better! Put the date in your diary now!
· We also held webinars on implementing prohibition<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GohuHtQaq5c&t=6257s> and corporal punishment in early childhood<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH-j_aqcb1U&t=2267s>, took part in many others, and we launched five new publications – you can find them all below.
· There has been active campaigning to prohibit and/or eliminate corporal punishment in many parts of the world, including Sri Lanka, Canada, Sierra Leone, Jamaica, France, the USA, Costa Rica, Colombia, Thailand, Philippines, Brazil, Wales, South Africa…and many more! (We will be sharing a survey in the New Year to find out what is happening where you are).
There has been encouraging progress across all areas of work to end violence against children. Find out more in the End Violence Partnership 2021 round up here.<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmailch...
Thank you for everything you do to end corporal punishment of children. We are honoured to work with you towards the realisation of non-violent childhoods for all!
We hope you all have a very restful and peaceful end to the year and look forward to working together with you again in 2022.
With best wishes,
Bess Herbert, Advocacy Specialist - Corporal Punishment
bess.herbert@end-violence.org<mailto:bess.herbert@end-violence.org>
Sonia Vohito, Legal Policy Specialist – Corporal Punishment
sonia.vohito@end-violence.org<mailto:sonia.vohito@end-violence.org>
New publications in 2021
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Global Report April 2021<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fendcor...
Guidance for Implementation of Prohibition<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fendcor...
Research summaries<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fendcor...
ASEAN regional briefing<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fendcor...
Early years briefing<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fendcor...
End Corporal Punishment<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fendcor... is a critical initiative of the End Violence Partnership.<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.en...
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