Date: June 2009

New Legal Reform Briefings from the Global Initiative

The Global Initiative has produced a series of seven technical briefings on how to achieve legal reform to prohibit all corporal punishment of children, including in the home. The briefings summarise the steps needed to campaign successfully for governments to meet their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child to ensure children have the same protection from assault that adults have, and cover topics such as how to review and re-draft legislation, how to work with governments and parliaments, how to develop national campaign strategies etc. Drawing on experiences of working with child rights advocates in global and regional workshops on law reform in 2008 and 2009, the briefings are intended to provide a reference point for planning and carrying out successful national campaigns.

The briefings can be downloaded here:

1. Understanding the need for prohibition
   
   
2. Reviewing current law
   
   
3. Drafting prohibiting legislation
   
   
4. Building a national strategy
   
   
5. Working with Government and Parliament
   
   
6. Using legal action and regional and international human rights mechanisms
   
   
7. Key resources to support campaigning

For further information on law reform to achieve prohibition, please see the Global Initiative handbook Prohibiting corporal punishment of children: A guide to legal reform and other measures and the accompanying online law reform pages.

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