Paying more attention to children’s rights is the goal of the many

Workshop panelists discuss how to improve childrens rights.

Violence against children has become an issue that has been receiving great attention. Those who are concerned with human rights are paying a particular attention to children rights. The world has witnessed a number of changes in this area through workshops, seminars and conferences at international, regional and local levels. Associations concerned with children’s issues have been established, particularly in developing countries, in order to support children’s rights. Children in the developing countries suffer discrimination, ill-treatment, physical and mental violence and are deprived of many basic rights, in spite of the international conventions on the rights of the child and on human rights in general.

In a workshop, conducted by Shawthab Corporation for Childhood and Development, children were given a chance to ask questions of the representative of Ministry of Education, Mohammed al-Jallal. Al- Jallal told children that the ministry is doing many things to punish teachers who violently dealing with children. 

Yemen is one of those countries in which many civil society organizations have emerged under many different names, yet agreeing on their principles and that the aim to protect children, especially those marginalized homeless or orphaned. 

The three-day workshop aimed to define violence by the individual, family and society, its causes, its consequences on children and identify legislations approved by the government in agreement with the United Nations to combat violence. 

Al-Jallal said that the ministry is ready to receive any complaints from both children and their parents about the violence that children face in their schools. He stressed that combating violence against children is not only the responsible of the ministry, but it is the duty of the whole community. Many teachers think that by beating children, they will get the respect of those children, according to him, but the ministry does not encourage such way of teaching. "We aim at qualifying and train children instead of frighten them."  

Moreover, the workshop introduced the children to their rights and trained them how to ask the concerned bodies as well as gave the children a chance to express themselves.

About 20 male and female children under the age of 16 have taken part in the workshop.

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