Report on "Raise your hand against smacking"

Jim Gibbons reports for CNN on the Council of Europe's continent-wide initiative against the corporal punishment of children and, in particular, about the launching ceremony in Zagreb, Croatia (15 June 2008). It features the organisation's Deputy Secretary General Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Croatian Prime Deputy Prime-Minister Jadranka Kosor and various international experts and personalities working to achieve full prohibition of corporal punishment of children, to promote positive parenting and to raise awareness of children's rights throughout Europe.

No religion, economic situation or "educational" method can justify hitting, smacking, spanking, abusing, humiliating, or any other practice that violates a child's dignity. It is internationally recognised in human rights law that children have a right to protection from all forms of violence, including corporal punishment in all settings -- home, school, penal systems, care institutions ect.

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• children
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• europe

[dragons2k100]

lol nice, its impossible for us to know what it does, so it must be evilll first line outa the bimbos mouth. lol...

[rosepetal169]

i agree kids will respond to it if they no why then it is ok it teaches them to behave when i have kids i will smack them as a punishment

[g8crusader]

smack there little butts when there young and you get a well developed child that you dont have to keep saying " no darling dont do that " if they know they will get a smack they stop when you say stop. but you try getting that into the do gooders heads,you know the ones they have the screaming kids in the shops making the demands while goodie mummy is saying " no darling dont do that " what twats.