Bangladesh - child parliament
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The Bangladesh Child Parliament is a group of young people aged 12-18. Since 2005, the Child Parliament has said that corporal punishment in schools should be banned.
In 2010, young people from the Bangladesh Child Parliament carried out researchFinding out about something. in 512 schools which revealed that 68% of students experience physical and mental punishment by teachers. Read more in a news report.
In July 2005, following the death of a student from school corporal punishment, Child Parliamentarians sent a protest letter to the Prime Minister, Law Minister, and Education Minister, asking them to stop corporal punishments in schools. Then the Child Parliament organized a discussion about school corporal punishment.
Before the discussion, Child Parliamentarians attended a workshop where they identified 34 types of physical and humiliating punishment they experienced in their schools. See pictures of the types of punishment here.
The Child Parliament had decided that half the people (about 20 people) at the discussion would be members of the Child Parliament, and the other half would be adults, including ministers, MPs, journalists, teachers, parents, lawyers, psychologists, and human rights activists. An ex-member of the Child Parliament and Ali Imam, a popular children’s writer, moderated the discussion together. Children and adults were given equal time for discussion and after every adult spoke, a child leader was given the chance to speak. The meeting got a lot of attention from the media.
Read more about the discussion here.
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