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EDD 2016
The European Development Days (EDD) are Europe’s leading forum on development and cooperation. Organised by the European Commission, the forum brings the development community together each year to share ideas and experiences in ways that inspire new partnership and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.
Save the Children, together with the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, have organised a stand in the EDD Village. The EDD Village showcases ground-breaking development projects, reports, and initiatives from around the world. By hosting a stand in the Village, we are able to showcase our work on ending corporal punishment, and to show our results and programmes while engaging with the rest of the development community.
Corporal punishment, the most common form of violence against children, violates their right to dignity, physical integrity, education and health, and is linked to negative outcomes (poor mental health, increased aggression, antisocial behaviour etc.) that can persist into adulthood.
Violence disproportionately affects the development of low- and middle-income countries, undermining personal and collective security, slowing economic growth and impeding social development.
Development agencies can play a key role in ending violence against children – a foundation for peaceful societies.
This page provides a list of publications and information on our work on ending violence against children. This will supplement our participation at the EDD 2016 conference.
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End Violence Against Children Now
The year 2015 has witnessed extensive progress towards universal prohibition of physical and humiliating punishment of children, more than half of UN member states have now achieved legal prohibition in all settings or have expressed a committment to doin
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"Making Sure Every Child is Free from Violence": Key messages for EDD Lab Debate 16 June 14.45-16.00
How can the EU ensure implementation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 16.2 to end abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence and torture against children? Every five minutes a child dies as a result of violence. An estimated 15
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International Development Aid: A key context for speeding universal prohibition of violent punishment of children
Ending violent punishment – the most common form of violence against children – is fundamental to creating the peaceful, non-violent and rights-respecting societies envisioned in the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. Prohibition of all violent punishme
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Childhoods free from corporal punishment- prohibiting and eliminating all violent punishment of children
If states can be convinced to work strategically together, 2030 is now an entirely realistic deadline for achieving universal prohibition of violent punishment of children and its substantial elimination. In July 2016, United Nations member states come to
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Bullying Among Children: National sociological study
For more than 15 years, Save the Children has bene systematically concerned with the phenomenon of child violence, which plays a fundamental role within civil society in developing policies that regulate all forms of violence against children, in all life
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Teach Parents Emotional Intelligence: Parenting resources targeting parents of children aged 3-6 years old
This material was designed for parents of preschool children (from 3 to 6 years old) and provides practical responses to the educational challenge that they face with their children when raising them. In particular, this learning tool has been designed fo
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Ending Corporal Punishment of Children- A handbook for working with religious communities
This handbook is a revised, abridged version of the handbook “ Ending corporal punishment of children – working with and within religious communities ” (2011). It provides links to tools and resources for engaging with and enlisting the support of religio
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Child Abuse and Neglect: National sociologic study
This study presents an up-to-date measurement of the of the violence against children phenomenon, after ten years of awareness campaigns and seven years of legislative measures that forbid violence against children. It is a measurement of the consisting e
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A Guide to building healthy parent-child relationships: A positive rights-based approach
Save the Children works towards eliminating all forms of corporal or physical punishment and other humiliating or degrading punishment of children in all settings. For this reason, Save the Children Italy, Save the Children Lithuania, Save the Children Ro
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Ending corporal punishment of children. A handbook for working with and within religious communities
A handbook for working with and within religious communities on how to end corporal punishment of children, developed jointly by Global Initiative to End all Corporal Punishment of Children, Churches’ Network for Non Violence and Save the Children Sweden.
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Children's Right to be Heard and Effective Child Protection: A Guide for governments and children´s rights advocates in involving children and young people in ending all forms of violence
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 Committ
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'I cry when I am hit': Children have the right to be properly researched
This paper was written as a contribution to the UNESCO, 2005, Eliminating Corporal Punishment- The Way Forward to Constructive Child Discipline, Paris, France conference. It discusses children’s right to be properly researched – to participate and contrib