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(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.