Summary: This conference will take place on 20 October from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm at George Washington Law School, Washington DC. This conference is being organised in conjunction with a hearing on corporal punishment at the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights. Speakers will include: Peter Newell - Coordinator of the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, on global progress towards ending legalized violence against children. Mario Alberto Víquez Jiménez – Department for Children and Adolescents. Office of the Ombundsman, Costa Rica on the Costa Rican experience on promoting a full ban of corporal punishment of children. Maria do Rosario Nunes – Member of National Congress for the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on the Brazilian initiative on banning all corporal punishment of children. Nadine Block - Executive Director of the Center for Effective Discipline and co-chair of EPOCH-USA, on how to campaign in the USA.
Children’s Human Rights in the Americas: Establishing an International Judicial Framework for Corporal Punishment
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