14 March is the UN Human Rights Council’s 2024 Annual Day on the Rights of the Child States are obliged and committed under international human rights law to take all necessary action to protect children from violence, both by enacting explicitly clear legal frameworks that prohibit all forms and levels of violence against children - including all corporal punishment - and then putting into effect all necessary measures including the provision of necessary resources and budget, to implement the law, and ensure children are protected from violence. Such measures include the universal provision of information, support and parenting programmes to enable parents and carers to successfully adopt non-violent, positive methods of raising children. We know so many of the answers to end the ongoing cycle of violence against children, but we have to push hard for the issue to achieve political priority, and sadly prevalence across the world remains incredibly high. On this Annual Day on the Rights of the Child, let’s call for faster action and greater political will to end violence against children!
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