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Prevention
FUNDACION PANIAMOR PRESENTS THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF ITS CAMPAIGN ‘EDUCATE WITH NO PUNISHMENT’ AS AN EXPERIENCE OF GOOD PRACTICE
- Fundación
Paniamor participated in the 2nd Symposium as well as at the 6th
National Congress on Achievements and Challenges approaching the Rights
of children younger than six years of age, organized by PRIDENA.
- With the
participation of different representatives of several Latin American
countries in the region and around 300 Costa Rican experts and
professionals, the activity was carried out in the headquarters of
“Universidad de Costa Rica”, from the 29th of September to the 1st of
October.
Fundación Paniamor presented the campaign “Educate with no punishment” as an experience of good practice.
Fundación Paniamor is involved with this issue because it believes that
the elimination of physical and humiliating punishment as a practice to
raise children is relevant as:
- it is a
violation of childrens' human rights since it violates their physical
integrity, their dignity and is discriminating and presently no law of
equivalent protection exists,
- the
legitimization by the society of physical and humiliating punishment
complicates the effective protection of children and adolescents as it
assumes that some forms of violence are acceptable. Furthermore, minors
are taught that violence is an acceptable and correct strategy for
resolving problems, and because
- it promotes
double standards, since it teaches that there are two categories of
citizens: the minors and adults, in other words, the category of child,
child and adolescent is acceptable to hit and humiliate, but not to
adults.
Furthermore, the strategies used within the campaign make it
sustainable in long terms for its achievements, within which we can
mention:
- the incorporation of the campaign in the annual programs of the Departments for Education and Health.
- the creation of specific projects on national level developing local protection systems,
- the emergence
of a new generation of parents who are aware of the need to modify
parenting boards and break with the culture of educating with violence
thus creating the framework of a society with regard to human rights of
children and adolescents, and last but not least
- the approval of the law “Rights of children and adolescents to discipline without physical and humiliating treatment".
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