Additional resources
• Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children.
Ending corporal punishment of children: A short guide to effective law reform.
• Save the Children; Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children; The United Nations SecretaryGeneral’s Study on Violence against Children. Raising Children Without Violence is Possible: How Positive
Discipline Leads to Change and Benefits Society. Video of a high-level interactive event.
• FCG Swedish Development AB. Balogun, Paul. Smulders, Ans. Lindström, Johanna.
Impact Evaluation of the Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting Programme.
• Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat. A story about the harmful impact of corporal punishment for each
and every child and the importance for each child to have trusted adults to turn to. Comic book.
• UNESCO. Positive discipline in the inclusive, learning-friendly classroom: a guide for teachers and teacher
educators.
• UNICEF. Cuartas, Jorge. Rey-Guerra, Catalina. Guidance for families to prevent violence in early childhood in
the time of COVID-19.
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