Meeting each other
Children and young people at the project’s first residential, April 2007
Random fact no 2
Eighteen countries have changed the law to stop parents hitting their children (the date in brackets is when the law was changed) – Sweden (1979), Finland (1983), Norway (1987), Austria (1989), Cyprus (1994), Denmark (1997), Latvia (1998), Croatia (1999), Germany (2000), Bulgaria (2000), Israel (2000), Iceland (2003), Romania (2004), Ukraine (2004), Hungary (2005), Greece (2006), The Netherlands (2007) and New Zealand (2007).
UNICEF made cartoons to celebrate the Convention on the Rights of the Child. We’ve included a selection of these around our site.
