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After making the report and film, the children decided to create a Protection Club, which aims to get the government to follow up on the recommendations of their report to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

30 children in Ulaanbaatar formed a club. Two children from the Ulaanbaatar club went to Dornod to help 15 children there set up their own club. Most of the young people in the protection club are aged 12 – 18. A few of them are over 18. The children chose a slogan for the club: “Love is a shield from violence.”

Children have also taken action against corporal punishment in Save the Children UK’s Community Based Centres. Children aged 6 - 18, usually children who have some problems at home, at school, etc., come to the centres every day except at weekends for after-school activities. In 2007, at one of the centres, children organised a press conference about a case of corporal punishment in a school. Children got together and wrote an appeal letter to try to stop corporal punishment being used in schools.

In some pilot schools, there are comment boxes for children. Children can put a note in anonymously, with the name of teachers who use corporal punishment, and this is discussed at teachers’ meetings.

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