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Ending Physical and Humiliating Punishment Against Children: Summary Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda Save the Children Fights for Children's Rights Ending Physical and Humiliating Punishment against Children: Summary Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda Save the Children fights for children's rights. We deliver immediate and lasting improvements to children's lives worldwide. Save the Children works for a world: • which respects and values each child • which listens to children and learn • where all children have hope and opportunity Save the Children Sweden publishes books and reports to disseminate knowledge about the situation of children, to provide guidance and inspire new thoughts and discussions. You can order our publications by contacting us directly or by using our on-line bookshop, www.rb.se/bookshop This report is part of a series reports, studying Physical and humiliating Punishment against Children in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda, published by Save the Children Sweden. © 2005 Save the Children Sweden Author: Save the Children Sweden and Alebel Derib Editor: Greg McIvor Save the Children Sweden Eastern and Central Africa Regional Office Box 3457 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tel: +251 11 32 10 960 Fax: +251 11 32 14 234 Mail [email protected] 2 Ending Physical and Humiliating Punishment against Children: Summary Table of Contents 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................4 2. Legal Status of PHP................................................................................................................................................5 2.1 Ethiopia ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 2.2 Kenya................................................................................................................................................................ 5 2.3 Uganda ............................................................................................................................................................. 6 3. Recommendations by human rights treaty bodies..........................................................................................8 3.1 Ethiopia ............................................................................................................................................................ 8 Committee on the Rights of the Child....................................................................................................... 8 Committee on the Rights of the Child....................................................................................................... 8 3.2 Kenya................................................................................................................................................................ 8 Committee on the Rights of the Child....................................................................................................... 8 3.3 Uganda ............................................................................................................................................................. 9 Committee on the Rights of the Child....................................................................................................... 9 Human Rights Committee ............................................................................................................................ 9 4. Research review on PHP................................................................................................................................... 10 4.1 Causes of PHP..............................................................................................................................................10 4.1.1 Ethiopia..................................................................................................................................................10 4.1.2 Kenya.....................................................................................................................................................11 4.1.3 Uganda...................................................................................................................................................11 4.2 Effects of physical and humiliating punishment......................................................................................14 4.2.1 Ethiopia..................................................................................................................................................14 4.2.2 Kenya.....................................................................................................................................................15 4.2.3 Sudan .....................................................................................................................................................16 4.2.4 Uganda...................................................................................................................................................16 5. Good practice and effective interventions .................................................................................................... 18 5.1 Ethiopia ..........................................................................................................................................................18 Awareness raising .........................................................................................................................................18 Conducting researches and surveys..........................................................................................................18 Promoting child participation through initiating and supporting clubs in schools...........................18 Protection programmes...............................................................................................................................19 Providing support to victims of violence .................................................................................................19 Child clubs in schools...................................................................................................................................19 Welcoming ceremony to a newborn child by child right clubs in Gonder ......................................20 Digum Elementary School...........................................................................................................................20 5.2 Kenya..............................................................................................................................................................20 5.3 Uganda ...........................................................................................................................................................22 Good Practice – Local initiatives among the Sabiny to stop FGM .....................................................23 6. Recommendations .............................................................................................................................................. 24 6.1 Ethiopia ..........................................................................................................................................................24 Awareness-raising.........................................................................................................................................24 Effective enforcement of existing laws .....................................................................................................24 Establishing mechanisms for effective reporting of violence................................................................24 Regular and systematic data collection and analysis..............................................................................24 Providing support to victims.......................................................................................................................25 Enhancing child participation ......................................................................................................................25 Law reform.....................................................................................................................................................25 6.2 Kenya..............................................................................................................................................................25 6.3 Sudan..............................................................................................................................................................26 6.4 Uganda ...........................................................................................................................................................27 Ending Physical and Humiliating Punishment against Children: Summary 3 1. Introduction Children, as members of society least able to protect themselves, have been subjected to different kinds of violence. Physical and humiliating punishment is the most common and widespread type of violence against children in most societies. Children are physically punished and psychologically humiliated and degraded at home, in schools and in the community at large. There is mounting evidence that physical and humiliating punishment endangers children’s survival and development. The right of children to be protected from physical and humiliating punishment is one of the basic rights of children enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Despite this recognition, physical
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