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Summary: Childrearing without violence: Public education against corporal punishment of children and promotion of positive discipline in families and communities.
Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, 20-24 March 2006. Save the Children members and partner organisations representing Cambodia, China, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, South Korea, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam participated in a one week regional workshop run in conjunction with Save the Children’s regional campaign to end corporal punishment and the United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children. The event was organised to mark the completion of a 14-month research exercise about corporal punishment of children, in which over 3000 children and 1000 adults from eight countries in Southeast Asia Pacific were involved. The first part of the workshop focused on initiating and running advocacy and public education campaigns to prevent children suffering physical and humiliating punishment in their homes, schools and institutions, as well as promoting more widely the adoption of methods for peaceful childrearing. The second part of the workshop introduced a community-centred model of intervention to promote childrearing without violence which proposes rights-based materials and activities for use in community work to assist parents and other care givers to raise children without resort to violence. The workshop participants discussed the programme approach through a collective review of Childrearing Without Violence: A Practical Guide for Families and Communities which will be introduced to and used in local contexts later this year. The proceedings of the workshop including a final draft Childrearing Without Violence: A Practical Guide for Families and Communities will be released at the end of May 2006. More information: Childrearing for Peace: A search for solutions, report by Save the Children Sweden - South East Asia Pacific Regional Office