Date: September 2009

East and Central Africa – report of legal reform workshop

In May 2009,  Save the Children Sweden, the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children and the Churches’ Network for Non-violence held a workshop in Nairobi on achieving law reform to prohibit all corporal punishment of children in East and Central Africa. Child advocates from Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Senegal and Tanzania met to look in detail at what is required in campaigning for prohibition of all corporal punishment, from reviewing the current legal situation to ensuring that prohibiting legislation is enacted. National strategies for promoting prohibition were drafted during the workshop. The report, published by Save the Children Sweden, is available to download here.

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