Hello, I'm sending round this invitation from End Corporal Punishment to a wevinar on the 4th May that looks well worth joining.
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). www.chifa.org He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group. www.hifa.org/people/steering-group<http://www.hifa.org/people/steering-group>www.hifa.org/support/members/<... Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk
Ending corporal punishment in schools to transform education for all children
International high-level webinar and report launch
Thursday 4 May 2023, 8:00 AM New York | 2:00 PM Geneva | 9:00 PM Tokyo
Register HERE!
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_72FtFHnDSySH8y7Gvqfrag#/regi...
Dear friends and colleagues,
You are invited to the launch of our new report on school corporal punishment! Co-authored with the Safe to Learn Coalition and the Coalition for Good Schools, the report calls for urgent progress towards the ending of violent punishment in education for all children.
· 793 million children – half the global school-age population – live in countries where corporal punishment is lawful in school
· Vast numbers of children are regularly subjected to violent punishment at school - research shows a lifetime prevalence of 70% in Central America, and a past-week prevalence of 40+% in Africa and Southeast Asia
· Violence undermines everything that education aims to achieve – harming children and stopping them from learning, and wasting our collective investment in education
· Corporal punishment disproportionately affects children facing disadvantage and difficulty – those who most need the benefits of education
· But many countries have effectively ended violent punishment in schools in recent years – there is no time to waste in ensuring ALL children have access to non-violent education!
The webinar will be chaired by Mehnaz Akber Aziz, Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, Convener Parliamentary Child rights Caucus and Global Co-Chair of the International Parliamentary Network for Education.
Speakers include:
Mrs. Magnet Marquez Ramirez, Minister for Education, Government of Peru
Representative of the Ministry of Education, Government of Jordan
Line Baago-Rasmussen, Education Specialist and Safe To Learn Global Coordinator, UNICEF
Sonia Vohito, End Corporal Punishment Legal Policy Specialist, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children
Quentin Wodon, Director UNESCO IICBA, former Lead Economist at the World Bank
Professor Shanaaz Mathews, Director, Children's Institute, University of Cape Town and Founding Member of the Coalition for Good Schools
Baguma Filbert Bates, General Secretary, Uganda National Teachers' Union
Prerit Rana, Chief Executive, Agrasar, India
The new report, co-authored by the End Violence Partnership, Safe to Learn and the Coalition for Good Schools highlights:
· Children’s experiences of corporal punishment in school
· Countries where school corporal punishment is still lawful
· Strategies for eliminating corporal punishment in practice
Find out more about the webinar and report launch here.
This week raise your voice to call for an end to violent punishment of children!
The International Day to #EndCorporalPunishment 2023 is nearly here! Use our advocacy and communications pack to speak up for non-violent childhoods!
You can access the advocacy packs in English, French and Spanish here.
Partners around the world – from Tanzania, Canada and Ethiopia to France and Nigeria - are taking action to end corporal punishment of children. You can find some more inspiring examples at the bottom of this message. Make sure you get involved!
Thank you for your partnership. Together we will #EndCorporalPunishment!
With best wishes,
Bess Herbert, Advocacy Specialist – End Corporal Punishment
Sonia Vohito, Legal Policy Specialist – End Corporal Punishment
