How was prohibition of corporal punishment achieved in Ireland? What were the challenges, how were they overcome and how can we support similar reform in other countries? 

Jillian van Turnhout, Former Senator and Child Rights Advocate, talks about the Irish experience of law reform to end corporal punishment of children and the urgent need to ensure children all over the world can live free from violence. 

This is the fourth video to be released from our series, Ensuring Non-violent Childhoods. You can view the entire playlist here: 

Interviews were filmed at the High-level Conference on  Implementing the Prohibition of Corporal Punishment: Achievements in the Baltic Sea Region, Stockholm, 15-16 Nov 2018.