Tunisia-Approximately 21% of parents consider corporal punishment to be a necessary educational practice,states UNICEF expert

Approximately 21% of parents in Tunisia believe that corporal punishment is a fundamental educational practice, asserted UNICEF expert Moutapha Icha.
Speaking at the 71st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 30th anniversary of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child in Mahdia, he affirmed that 88% of children aged 1  and 14 had experienced corporal discipline.Icha declared that 84.2% of children aged from 1 to 14 years suffered verbal and psychological violence while 22.6 % of victims of physical violence,Reported the TAP agency

On his part, President of the Tunisian League for Human Rights section in Mahdia Jameleddine Essebii said that laws ensuring children’s rights and human rights, in general, does not match the current situation, especially at a time when the phenomenon of brutality against children has grown significantly.

He further said that the plights of child abuse within or outside the family and conditions that may place children at perils, such as drug use and misconduct in all its forms, must be discussed through group actions.