تنبيه بدنى كودكان - حسينى خواه، سيدجواد - الصفحة ٣١٣ - ث) تفسير عمومى شمارهى ٨ كميتهى حقوق كودك

. Educational and other measures

. Article of the Convention underlines the importance of giving due consideration to childrens views on the development and implementation of educational and other measures to eradicate corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment.

. Given the widespread traditional acceptance of corporal punishment, prohibition on its own will not achieve the necessary change in attitudes and practice. Comprehensive awarene ssraising of childrens right to protection and of the laws that reflect this right is required. Under article of the Convention, States undertake to make the principles and provisions of the Convention widely known, by appropriate and active means, to adults and children alike.

. In addition, States must ensure that positive, non- violent relationships and education are consistently promoted to parents, carers, teachers and all others who work with children and families. The Committee emphasizes that the Convention requires the elimination not only of corporal punishment but of all other cruel or degrading punishment of children. It is not for the Convention to prescribe in detail how parents should relate to or guide their children. But the Convention does provide a framework of principles to guide relationships both within the family, and between teachers, carers and others and children. Childrens developmental needs must be respected. Children learn from what adults do, not only from what adults say. When the adults to whom a child most closely relates use violence and humiliation in their relationship with the child, they are demonstrating disrespect for human rights and teaching a potent and dangerous lesson that these are legitimate ways to seek to resolve conflict or change behaviour.

. The Convention asserts the status of the child as an individual person and holder of human rights. The child is not a possession of parents, nor of the State, nor simply an object of concern. In this spirit,