CHARTING GLOBAL PROGRESS TOWARDS ENDING CORPORAL PUNISHMENT OF CHILDREN
SPONSORED BY: EPOCH-USA (End Physical Punishment of Children), GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO END ALL CORPORAL PUNISHMENT of CHILDREN, AND SAVE THE CHILDREN Sweden - This conference is for those who support ending corporal punishment of children. The purpose of this briefing conference is to share progress and to brainstorm new ideas and strategies for all continents.
| Saturday July 6 | Adams Mark Hotel - Tower Court D |
| 6.00 - 7.00 pm | Registration, welcome reception and introductions. |
| Sunday July 7 | Adams Mark Hotel - Grand Ballroom I |
| 9.30 | Welcome |
| 9.35 - 11.00 | Progress towards ending all corporal punishment: Jaap Doek, Chair, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child: People are not for hitting and children are people too Peter Newell, Joint Coordinator, Global Initiative - London: Introducing... Reports from all regions including accounts of successful prohibition. Short summaries and discussion (detailed papers will be available) |
| 11.00 - 12.00 | Updates on research: Introduction, Professor Joan Durrant, University of Manitoba: prevalence of corporal punishment; effects of corporal punishment; public opinion including children's views; discussion |
| 12.00 - 1.00 | Lunch (own arrangements) - exhibitions of materials on positive discipline/positive parenting initiatives Begin brainstorming: Educational and legal strategies towards global elimination of all corporal punishment; in appropriate groups, continue after lunch. |
| 1.00 - 2.00 | Brainstorming in groups continues |
| 2.00 - 3.00 | Corporal punishment in the US: Nadine Block, EPOCH-USA, Susan Bitensky, Professor of Law, Michigan State University, Professor Murray Straus, U. of New Hampshire, and Howard Davidson, Esq, ABA Center on Children and the Law: Panel report and discussion |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Report back from brainstorming groups and discussion |
| 4.00 - 4.30 | Conclusion: What the world might be like if adults stopped hitting and humiliating children? Professor Murray Straus, Co-Director, Family Violence Research Laboratory University of New Hampshire |
| 5.00 | Opening ceremony of ISPCAN's Congress - in Adams Mark Hotel |