CRC/C/BTN/CO/2 page 8 (a) Adopt legislation as soon as possible, explicitly prohibiting all forms of corporal punishment of children in all settings, including the home; (b) Take all measures to ensure the enforcement of the law, conduct capacity building of professionals working with children, carry out awareness raising and public education campaigns against corporal punishment and promote non-violent, participatory methods of childrearing and education, while taking into account the Committee’s general comment No. 8 (2006) on the right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment. Follow-up to the United Nations Study on Violence against Children 39. With reference to the United Nations Secretary-General’s study on violence against children, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Take all necessary measures to implement the recommendations of the United Nations Study on violence against children (A/61/299) taking into account the outcome and recommendations of the Regional Consultation for South Asia, held in Pakistan from 19-21 May 2005. In particular, the Committee recommends that the State party pay particular attention to the following recommendations; (i) Prohibit all forms of violence against children; (ii) Strengthen national and local commitment and action; (iii) Promote non-violent values and awareness-raising; (iv) Enhance the capacity of all who work with and for children; (v) Ensure accountability and end impunity; and (b) Use the recommendations of the Study as a tool for action in partnership with civil society and, in particular, with the involvement of children to ensure that all children are protected from all forms of physical, sexual and psychological violence and to gain momentum for concrete and time-bound actions to prevent and respond to such violence and abuse; and (c) Seek technical cooperation in this respect from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO), and other relevant agencies, inter alia, the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), UNHCR, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), as well as NGO partners.

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