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USEFUL LINKS
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www.repeal43.org
The "Repeal 43 Committee" in Canada is campaigning for the repeal of section 43 of the Canadian Criminal Code, which provides parents, other carers and teachers with the right to use "reasonable" force to correct children. A constitutional challenge to section 43 is likely to be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada late in 2003.
www.dfsr.sk
Defence for Children International Slovak Section (the Children's Fund of the Slovak Republic) have launched a campaign to end all corporal punishment, including bill boards, radio and TV spots and an interactive website.
www.unhchr.ch
The site of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights includes details and documents of the international human rights instruments and their Treaty Bodies
www.unicef.org
UNICEF’s site includes details of its mission and activities, with sections on children’s rights, the United Nations Special Session on Children (May 2002) and the Global Movement for Children.
www.stophitting.com
The Center for Effective Discipline, a not-for-profit organization; also the National Coalition to Abolish Corporal Punishment in Schools and EPOCH-USA.
www.nospank.net
Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education (PTAVE) is an American non-profit organization. It includes articles and research on the harmful effects of corporal punishment.
www.positiveparenting.com
Positive Parenting On-line was developed to help parents everywhere learn to be more effective parents, by providing information on resources and advice.
www.naturalchild.org
The Natural Child Project web-site provides information on all aspects of parenting, with a focus on early childhood. It includes articles, parenting advice on many subjects, links to child advocacy sites and a collection of attachment parenting research.
www.unh.edu/frl
The Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire is an independent research unit devoted to the study of family violence, through comprehensive literature reviews, new theories, and methodologically sound studies. Papers by Murray Straus, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of FRL, are available on this site.
www.savethechildren.org.uk/onlinepubs/workitout/index.html
Save the Children UK: includes "We can work it out" — Parenting with confidence: a resource to support parents in managing children’s behaviour.
www.savethechildren.es/castigo
Save the Children Spain: includes materials on positive discipline and on the campaign against corporal punishment in Spanish.
www.childrenareunbeatable.org.uk
More than 300 UK-based professional, child welfare and child protection organizations have formed the "Children are unbeatable! Alliance" to seek legal reform in the UK to give children the same protection as adults under the law on assault and to promote positive, non-violent discipline. Includes section on positive discipline.
www.epochnz.org.nz
New Zealand-based campaign promoting law reform and public education to end all corporal punishment; includes positive discipline materials.
www.usp.br/ip/laboratorios/lacri
The University of Sao Paulo Institute of Psychology Child Studies Laboratory, LACRI, is developing a nationwide campaign for a non-violent pedagogy: "Spanking is non-educational".