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Raise your hand against smacking!

The following high level dignitaries signed our call for total abolition of corporal punishment of children

Her Majesty Queen Silvia (Sweden); Göran Hägglund, Swedish Minister for Health and Social Affairs; Nyamko Sabuni, Swedish Minister for Integration and Gender Equality; Bastiks Ainars, Latvian Minister for Children and Family Affairs;  Kosta Barka, Albanian Minister for Labour, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities; Marjeta Cotman, Slovenian Minister for Labour, Family and Social Affairs; Nimet Cubukcu, Turkish Minister of State for Social Services; Giorgi Nodia, Georgian Minister for Education and Science; Dzamila Stehlikova, Czech Minister for Human Rights and National Minorities; Zarko Obradovic, Serbian Minister for Education; Hijrah Huseynova, Chair of the State Committee for Family, Women and Children's Affairs, Azerbaijan; Lukasz Lazarov, Bulgarian Deputy Minister for Labour and Social Policy; Idàlia Moniz, Portuguese Secretary of State for Disability; Nadine Morano, French Secretary of State for the Family; Kjell Erik Oie, State Secretary, Norwegian Ministry of Children and Equality; Edit Rauh, Hungarian Deputy Minister for Social Affairs and Labour; Redziniak, Polish Secretary of State for Justice;