Seodaemun-gu Creates a Child-Friendly City

Seodaemun-gu Signs MOU with Save the Children to Protect and Promote Children's Rights, Conducts Training for 'Positive Discipline Expert Instructors' and Secures Pool of Children's Rights Instructors

Moon Seok-jin, Mayor of Seodaemun-gu (left), and Jung Tae-young, Secretary General of Save the Children, are posing for a commemorative photo after signing a business agreement for the "Protection and Promotion of Children's Rights."

[Asia Economy Reporter Jong-il Park] Seodaemun-gu (Mayor Moon Seok-jin) signed a business agreement on the afternoon of the 20th with the international relief and development NGO Save the Children to "protect and promote children's rights."

Through this agreement, the two organizations plan to conduct training to cultivate "positive discipline professional instructors" targeting guardians and daycare center directors, presenting a non-violent parenting and childcare approach based on children's rights.

They will also carry out child abuse prevention campaigns such as the exhibition "Drawing, 100 Verbal Wounds" and a special lecture titled "Corporal Punishment Viewed through Humanities."

The district planned and promoted this agreement to strengthen public responsibility for child protection progressively from local governments in accordance with the government's "Inclusive State Child Policy (2019)."

Save the Children, an organization dedicated to protecting children's rights, has been conducting legislative support activities, system improvements, and awareness campaigns to eradicate corporal punishment of children. Through dispatching professional instructors, education, and campaigns, it will actively support Seodaemun-gu's overall child rights protection projects.

Mayor Moon Seok-jin stated, "I hope the perception that 'children can be taught through corporal punishment' will change through the projects to be promoted under this agreement," adding, "We will make greater efforts to create a child-friendly city, Seodaemun-gu, where children can live more safely."

Jung Tae-young, Secretary General of Save the Children, also said, "I urge the local community to view and respect children as full rights holders," and added, "We will do our best to support the elimination of child abuse and the spread of a non-violent parenting culture."

Among local governments nationwide, Seodaemun-gu is the first to cultivate guardians and child education institution workers as "positive discipline professional instructors" and to conduct continuous children's rights education based on this, which is expected to serve as a good example for other local governments.

Furthermore, this agreement is expected to invigorate Seodaemun-gu's projects aimed at creating a safer city for children.

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