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Southeast Asia and the Pacific is home to 1.9 billion people, of whom 600 million are children under 18 years. Recent studies show that violence is one of the major problems affecting children in this region. Research by Save the Children in 2005, which gathered information from 1,042 adults and 3,322 children in eight countries, found various types of violence were often administered at home, in school, and in institutions under the name of discipline. Read more. 

Why physical and emotional punishment is a violation of children's rights?

Save the Children denounces physical and physical punishment as a violation of the basic principles of dignity, physical integrity and fundamental freedoms...  Read more. 

What we do in Southeast Asia and the Pacific

Save the Children Sweden has been promoting the elimination of all violence against children in the region since 2003. Eight Save the Children members (Australia, Fiji, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and UK) work together with partners to ensure that children are assured of full respect for their dignity and grow up free from physical and humiliating violence.

Our national and regional interventions aim to support governments, civil society and relevant organisations, including mandated United Nations agencies, to act on their responsibilities to address all violence against children, including physical and humiliating punishment, as a severe violation of children’s rights.

Save the Children Sweden recognises that the UN Study report, released in November 2006, and its recommendations must mark a turning point – an end to adult justification of violence against children, whether accepted as tradition or disguised as discipline. There can be no compromise in challenging violence against children. Children’s potential, vulnerability and dependence on adults makes it imperative that they receive more, not less, protection from violence.

Save the Children identified the study as a major advocacy opportunity to challenge and change attitudes, and actively contributed to its implementation. Our aim has been to influence and contribute to the study, to help form the foundation of a new international strategy with clear recommendations on how to end violence against children. Beyond its contributions to the study, Save the Children continues to strengthen its own work on violence against children and to ensure that governments, the United Nations and other agencies implement concrete actions that will eventually end violence against children. Read more.