GAINING GROUND: More than 56 countries ban corporal punishment against children, and the foundation said that it hopes that Taiwan is next

Taipei Times
Date:  Apr 12, 2020
By: Rachel Lin and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer

The Humanistic Education Foundation is calling for people to pledge to end corporal punishment of children, in an Internet event to commemorate International Spank Out Day on April 30.

National Spank Out Day originated in the US in 1998 to educate people about nonviolent parenting alternatives, but since 2001, other organizations outside the US have adopted the event.

Foundation executive director Joanna Feng (馮喬蘭) yesterday said that Taiwan first observed the day in 2006, and in 2014 the government passed the Implementation Act of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (兒童權利公約施行法), based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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