Dhaka, April 26 -- April 30 is International End Corporal Punishment Day... please make a note.

There are only 14% of children - that's one in seven - around the world that are legally protected from corporal punishment. Sadly, Bangladesh is not one of them.

Corporal punishment is the physical and humiliating punishment of children at the hands of parents, teachers and caregivers. Thousands of children are seriously injured and many die as the result of corporal punishment each year. Some are also known to commit suicide because of the humiliation it causes.

Make no mistake; corporal punishment is child abuse - an act of violence - and who wants to encounter violence in their homes, schools or madrasas? Violence breed's violence... and...