Children’s right to be heard and effective child protection - A guide for Governments and children rights advocates on involving children and young people in ending all forms of violence
Save the Children Sweden, 2010
This publication offers guidance and practical examples to show the varied roles children can play in implementing the overarching recommendations of the United Nations Secretary General’s Global Study on Violence against Children. Building on the Committee on the Rights of the Child's keenly awaited General Comment on the child's right to be heard (2009), the publication considers different conceptions and practical approaches to participation, as well as the choices and challenges facing adults engaged in (or preparing to be engaged in) the implementation of children's rights.
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Never Violence - Thirty Years on from Sweden's Abolition of Corporal Punishment
Save the Children Sweden, 2009
In 2009 it is 30 years since Sweden introduced a ban on all forms of violent and emotionally abusive treatment of children. In so doing, Sweden became the first
country in the world to prohibit violence as a means of child-rearing.
The 30th anniversary of the ban on all forms of violence and demeaning treatment of children in Sweden reminds us what legislation and awareness campaigns can achieve – and how vital it is to keep working together to redouble our efforts to protect the right of children to freedom from violence and emotional abuse.
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Prohibiting All Corporal Punishment
in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Save the Children Sweden, 2009
A report of the regional technical workshop on 'Building Effective Child Protection' held in March 2009. This publication is a resource for understanding the process of law reform as well as encouraging action in national contexts, while describing the work of Save the Children in promoting children’s right to protection against all forms of violence.
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Prohibition of Corporal Punishment as a Key Element of Legislation Underpinning an Effective Rights-based Child Protection System
Save the Children Sweden, 2009
This document sets out the reason why challenging and prohibiting all corporation punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment of children is important for children and societies and why this should be driven by recognition of the need to fully realise children's human rights.
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Equal You and Equal Me
Save the Children, 2008
All parents want their children to grow up in a world free from discrimination and violence, to fulfill their dreams and to feel that whatever they want to accomplish in life is possible. This book will give you information about discrimination, why it happens and how it affects children. It will also give you information about what children from all over the world are doing to stop discrimination.
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Childrearing without Violence
Save the Children Sweden, 2008
The aim of this guide is to create and strengthen knowledge about childrearing without violence in countries in Southeast Asia Pacific, even in places where violence is common and to promote peaceful childrearing. The contents of this guide draw significantly on a publication originally published by Institute Promundo and the International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood.
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Reporting on Violence Against Children
NGO group for the convention on the rights of the child, 2008
The guidelines presented are designed to help non-governmental organisations to include comprehensive information on the incidence of violence in their reports to the Committee. NGOs have a unique role to play and they alone can give meaning to the data and statistics presented to the Committee. It is by making this information available that corrective measures can be identified that will move us towards our goal of ending violence.
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Non-Violent Discipline: A Guide for Training Professionals
Save the Children Sweden, 2008
This training programme is intended to raise awareness among professionals working with children and families about the effects of physical and psychological punishment on children and the need to end such punishment. This guide is based on a translation of materials developed by Pepa Horno Goicoechea, of Save the Children Spain, and used in ‘Love, Power and Violence: A comparative analysis of physical and psychological punishment patterns’ (2005).
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Providing follow-up on the United Nations Secretary-General’s Global Study on Violence against Children
Save the Children Sweden, 2007
This report is an outcome of the regional workshop on Proceedings of Save the Children and partner organizations on violence against children held in March in Bangkok. The workshop aims to adopt specific directions to follow up on the study’s recommendations in the region. Among the immediate priorities are the need to promote national legal reforms to guarantee that children receive equal protection as adults for their dignity and physical integrity, the necessity to work closely with governments to build more effective child protection systems, and the promotion of key issues to be included in the drafting of the UN Resolution on Children’s Rights to be put to the UN General Assembly in late 2007.
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Handbook for Paliamentarians N 13-2007
Eliminating Violence Against Children
Inter-Parliamentary Union and Unicef, 2007
This handbook is designed to promote active and effective follow-up by Parliaments and parliamentarians throughout the world to the recommendations of the United Nations Secretary- General’s Study on Violence against Children. The ultimate
goal of this handbook is to move States rapidly towards the elimination of all forms of violence against children.
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Positive Discipline: What is it and how to do it
A Manual for facilitators, educators, and trainers
Save the Children Sweden, 2008
The Training Manual, to be used in conjunction with the book, Positive Discipline: What it is and how to do it, contains four core principles of positive discipline and teach parents how to use positive discipline to plan a constructive response in a challenge situation. This manual is for facilitators, trainers and professionals who work individually with parents (future parents, foster parents and extended family members) or use for facilitating group discussion.
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Towards the Universal Prohibition of All Violent Punishment of Children
Save the Children Sweden, 2008
Save the Children, in collaboration with the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children and the Churches' Network for Non-Violence, organised the first workshop on achieving legal form to prohibit corporal punishment in May 2008, Bangkok. This report captures in some measure the deep commitment of the participants to making children’s right to equal protection a reality, their determination to develop and follow the national strategies for law reform and the information and experience exchanged during the dialogues.
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Taking Forward the Recommendations of the UN Secretary General's Global Study on Violence against Childre
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UNICEF and Save the Children, 2008
The publication is the summary of the East Asia regional meeting of UNICEF and Save the Children Alliance. It consisted of a review of the country-level successes in implementing the recommendations of the UN Study, an exchange of good practices between countries, and an examination of the possibilities for increased collaboration between Save the Children and UNICEF country offices.
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A Time for Change
Save the Children Sweden, 2008
In the short film, A Time for Change, Filipino children and adults spoke against the corporal punishment of children. Children described how they felt when they were physically or emotionally punished and what they think would be a better way of disciplining them. The film also featured interviews with parents, and showed the activities that the children and adults have undertaken as part of the national campaign against corporal punishment and the promotion of non-violent discipline for children. A Time for Change, had its world premier at the 17th ISPCAN International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect held recently in Hong Kong in 2008.
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Positive Discipline: What it is and how to do it
Save the Children Sweden, 2007
The new publication provides concrete answers to parents who want to raise their children without corporal punishment, in a positive climate. This guide also gives parents practice in thinking through their responses so that they are better prepared for parent-child conflict. It will help readers understand the links among child development, effective parenting and children’s rights.
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A Mapping of National Child Protection Systems
Save the Children Sweden, 2007
This summary report provides a concise overview of the current status of national child protection systems in countries where Save the Children is operating, and has been written as an input to the Global Workshop in Costa Rica on ‘Right Based National Child Protection Systems’. The purpose of this summary is to contribute to the objectives of the Global Workshop focusing on increasing Save the Children’s knowledge and understanding of current child protection systems, with the view to improving them in the future.
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Unreasonable force: New Zealand’s journey towards banning the physical punishment of children
Save the Children Sweden, 2007
This book traces the history of New Zealand’s long journey towards the emergence of our children into full citizenship. It explores key aspects of the intense debate that gripped the nation, including the growing recognition of children rights, tensions within our laws, the impact of religious convictions, shifting public attitudes, the work of child advocacy, the influential role of the media, and the fascinating political story.
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Childrearing without Violence: Public education against corporal punishment of children and promotion of positive discipline in families and communities
Save the Children Sweden, 2006
This workshop report compiles practical guidance for starting and running effective public education campaigns to protect children from physical and humiliating punishment. It also includes rights-based materials for training parents and other carers in communities on how to raise and educate children without violence.
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Safe You and Safe Me
Save the Children, 2006
A book for young children aged 7 to12 on violence. It is a tool to make children aware of violence, describing what children themselves are doing to prevent it and what they want to be done. This book is a contribution of Save the Children to the United Nations Secretary-General's Study on Violence against Children.
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Philippines Laws Related to the Discipline and Punishment of Children
Save the Children UK, 2006
The study focuses on the review and analysis of policies, laws and regulations on child discipline as issued by the executive, legislative and judiciary branches of the Philippine government as well as guidelines issued by selected private educational and religious institutions.
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The physical and Emotional Punishment of Children in Fiji
Save the Children Fiji, 2006
This research reports views and experience of adults and children in Fiji on physical and emotional punishment of children. The report aims to enhance the national understanding of physical and emotional punishment of children and its effects from the perspective of children and adults who participated in this study.
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What Children Say: Results of comparative research on the physical and emotional punishment of children in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Harriot Beazley, Sharon Bessell, Judith Ennew
and Roxana Waterson, 2005
This research records what 3,322 children from eight countries in the Southeast Asia and the Pacific region told researchers about everyday, common violence - both physical and emotional - used as punishment against them. It used a systematic, scientific approach, which sought information about children’s knowledge, experiences and views, using appropriate methods through which they could express themselves easily and without being harmed.
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The Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse of Children In Fiji: A Situational Analysis
Save the Children Fiji
This study is a situational analysis of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) and Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in Fiji. It attempts to examine the prevalence and knowledge of CSEC and CSA in Fiji and is part of a broader process of creating a regional knowledge base on these issues.
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Preventing Child Maltreatment: A Guide to Taking Action and Generating Evidence
World Health Organization and International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse
and Neglect, 2006
This guide combines the accumulated expertise of both organizations and provides the necessary tools and information to governments, civil society and international organizations in their efforts to prevent and respond to violence against children.
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Comparative research on physical and emotional punishment of children in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Protocal 2005
Harriot Beazley, Sharon Bessell, Judith Ennew, and Roxana Waterson, 2005
This book compiles a research protocol that sets out aims, research questions and an ethical strategy, together with a series of detailed research tools. This research protocol was developed and used by national research teams in eight countries in the Southeast Asia and the Pacific Region who are involved in a regional comparative research on corporal punishment. This research protocol is based on a twelve-step process for conducting rights-based research developed through extensive experiences in doing research with children.
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Discipline and punishment of children: a rights-based review of laws, attitudes and practices in East Asia and the Pacific
Natsu Nogami, 2005
The book covers a rights-based review of laws, attitudes, and practices in the discipline and punishment of children in the East Asia and the Pacific region.
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Ending Physical and Humiliating Punishment of Children
Save the Children, 2005
This practical Manual for Action is designed to guide the development of strategies to challenge physical and humiliating punishment. It incorporates examples of good practice from different country programmes. It also highlights key issues to consider; describes strategies that should be included in planning and implementing programmes, and provides lists of useful resources and contacts.
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What’s all this about the UN Study on Violence against Children Regional Consultation East Asia Pacific?
Child Workers in Asia, ECPACT, UNOHCHR, Plan, Save the Children, terre des hommes, UNESCO, UNICIF, and World Vision, 2005
This booklet has been written for people aged 12 to 18 years, who want to know about the Regional Consultation for the UN Study on Violence against Children in East Asia Pacific.
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Child Protection: A Handbook for Parliamentarians N 7-2004
Inter-Parliamentary Union and UNICEF, 2004
The handbook includes examples of the many ways in which Parliaments and their members around the world have responded to the challenges of child protection through laws, policies, advocacy and other means. It also describes how Parliaments and their members can gain a clearer understanding of what their contribution can be, and equips them with the knowledge and tools they require to make that contribution.
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How to research the physical and emotional punishment of children
Judith Ennew and Dominique Pierre Plateau, 2004
This handbook provides an easy to use, rights-based, reference to research with children on a topic of immediate concern to them. This includes ethical and scientific issues. It provides clear information on how to plan, design and carry out research, using a twelve-step research process, together with examples of the various tools and methods involved, largely drawn from the Southeast Asia and the Pacific region.
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National challenges, resource and information needs in addressing corporal punishment of children in Southeast, East Asia and Pacific
Save the Children, 2004
This workshop report documents national challenges and progress, information, and resources in addressing corporal punishment of children.
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Strategy to address the physical punishment and emotional abuse of children in schools
Save the Children, 2004
The workshop report summarises a strategy for addressing all forms of physical punishment and emotional abuse of children in SEAP. This strategy set the directions for future activities, emphasising that physical punishment and emotional abuse should be mainstreamed within all Save the Children programme areas.
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Negotiating Trust and Power
Parenting in the context of conflict resolution
Save the Children Sweden, 2003
Conflict is an issue that occurs in everyday life and in different contexts. Learning how to effectively deal with conflict is an important step in addressing the physical punishment and emotional abuse of children. This resource was presented at the International Save the Children Alliance regional workshop on 'Towards a strategy to address corporal punishment of children in Southeast Asia Pacific.
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Towards a strategy to Address Corporal Punishment of Children in Southeast, East Asia and Pacific
Save the Children, 2003
This workshop report summarises discussions of work experience in addressing corporal punishment and highlights characteristics of corporal punishment of children within the regional and national contexts. The report also contains a draft regional strategy to address all forms of corporal punishments of children in the Southeast Asia and the Pacific, developed by workshop participants.
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Save the Children: Child Protection Policy
Save the Children, 2003
Members of the International Save the Children Alliance have a common
commitment to the prevention of child abuse and the protection of children. The abuse and exploitation of children happens in all countries and societies across the world.
This policy sets out common values, principles, and beliefs and describes the steps that will be taken in meeting commitment to protect children.
The policy was adopted by the International Save the Children’s Member’s Meeting May 2003.
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