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Duterte vetoes bill banning corporal punishment for children

MANILA, Philippines --- President Rodrigo Duterte has vetoed the bill prohibiting corporal punishment for minors. Duterte vetoed the bill titled "An Act Promoting Positive and Nonviolent Discipline, Protecting Children from Physical, Humiliating or Degrading Acts as a Form of Punishment" on Saturday. The bill prohibits non-physical forms of violence such as intimidation, cursing, and ridiculing a child in public. "I am gravely concerned that the bill goes much further than this as it would proscribe all forms of corporal punishment, humiliating or not, including those done within the confines of the family home. I do not share such an overly sweeping condemnation of the practice...

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