Senegal has mobilized significant resources to promote the National Plan to Eliminate Ill-treatment. In 2010 and 2011, intensive communication campaigns involving the media and opinion leaders raised awareness among parents and health, police, judicial and education workers about prevention of violence against children. In order to combat violence, which has been prohibited in schools and informal settings since 1979, the State, civil society and Plan International launched the “Learning without fear” awareness-raising campaign in 2008.

The campaign made use of information and communication technologies to protect children, publicizing a helpline (116) based at the Reception and Assistance Centre for Street Children. This free alert and assistance mechanism is designed to facilitate reporting and guidance in cases of abuse and trafficking. All these processes have led Senegal to devise a national action plan on legal reform to criminalize corporal punishment and all forms of violence against children.

A/HRC/WG.6/17/SEN/1 para. 101-102