Bangladesh - conference on school corporal punishment
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On 4th June 2008, Save the Children organized a conference in Chittagong, on the topic, ‘Let’s Stop Physical and Mental Punishments in Schools’. Around 250 people were invited, including children, teachers, education officials, school management committee members and journalists, and the Mayor of Chittagong was the Chief Guest.
The conference was designed to get schools to join a new project to help them promote positive discipline and stop using corporal punishment.
At the conference, a children’s drama group did a drama on the bad effects of physical and mental punishments in schools, including school dropout. Here is a picture of it.
Pictures of the 34 types of physical and humiliating punishment identified by the Child Parliament were put around the walls of the conference room. See them here.
At the end of the conference, 18 schools signed up to join the project to become corporal punishment free.
Read more about the conference.
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