More than 1.3 billion children aged between one and 14 years are subjected to corporal punishment at home each year.
A few days ago, a post went viral on Facebook, saying “Today’s children may not comprehend why we were beaten in our childhoods”.
Government must expand and improve services for children without parents
We are shocked and saddened by the death of an eighth grader in Narsingdi, who died by suicide after her teacher harassed her for wearing trousers with her school uniform.
It's amazing how unhinged society can become if you don't pay attention to the smaller details and address them appropriately. Take for example violence in society. The majority of inhabitants of society detest and abhor violence.
It has been seven years since the High Court in a landmark judgement banned corporal punishment in education institutions in Bangladesh.
New research from the University of Michigan says children who are given corporal punishment emerge as anti-social, defiant and aggressive people.
Physical assaults on children continue across the country despite protests by child rights activists, laws against corporal
The caning of a schoolgirl in a government school in Pabna leaves us disgusted and horrified. Rojoni, the victim, was beaten until she fainted...
10-year-old Shiva Rawat died after being allegedly beaten up by his principal Lalit Kumar Verma on suspicion of stealing pencils.
THE incident of 42 students being meted out brutal punishment by a teacher in a school at Bagha upazila and the subsequent reaction, equally violent, brings to the fore the issue of corporal punishment for the umpteenth time.
