Latvia

Friends Across Borders is a regional anti-bullying project in the Baltic sea region.

The brochure When a child is a witness in court, published in the frame of Childhood without Abuse Project, is addressed to child witnesses' parents and caregivers. It explains parents' rights as well as the rights of their children within court procedures.

A new study on corporal punishment and school bullying by Save the Children Sweden aims at exploring measures taken to prevent physical and humiliating punishment of children and bullying and to build the case for legal provisions, public education and adequate protection systems. It covers six countries; Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden, and the St. Petersburg region of the Russian Federation.

Just after the conference in Riga, which took place between 8^th and 10^th November, the participants of the “Childhood without Abuse” project went to the Center Against Abuse “Dardedze”. During this site visit they got acquainted with all the programmes and activities of the organization and met the children living in the shelter run by “Dardedze”.