a. Physical Violence
Physical harm inflicted on pupils/students in any form constitutes a gross violation of the child's rights. Consequently;
I) An employee shall not administer any act of corporal punishment, or any act that inflicts physical pain on the children or causes physical harm to their pupils/students such as pushing, pulling, hitting and/or flogging.
ii) No staff shall subject pupils/students to painful body posture such as "frog jumping", standing in the sun and holding heavy loads on outstretched hands.
iii) No employee shall punish a child to do any work outside the classroom during contact hours.
iv) No staff shall cause harm to any pupil/student.
v) A staff shall not threaten any pupil/student with harm with intent to put that person in fear of harm.
vi) No employee shall assault any pupil/student.
vii) A staff shall not subject a pupil/student to or encourage other pupils/students to subject a pupil/student to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including any cultural practice that dehumanizes or is injurious to the physical and mental well-being of the pupil/student.
viii) An employee shall intervene to stop a pupil/student from perpetrating physical violence or abuse on another pupil/student.
ix) A staff shall intervene to stop a fellow staff from perpetrating physical violence or abuse on a pupil/student.
x) No correction of a pupil/student is justifiable that is unreasonable in kind or in degree according to the age, physical and mental condition of the pupil/student and if the child by reason of tender age or otherwise is incapable of understanding the purpose of the correction.
b. Psychological Violence
i) No act of a staff shall have a negative psychological effect on a school child. Therefore, no staff in the course of duty shall intimidate, insult, tease, harass, threaten, snub or discriminate against any child.
ii) An employee shall not use the physical challenge of children to intimidate or ridicule them.
iii) A staff shall not by any means or action compel students into activities of which they do not have a clear understanding.
iv) No employee shall deliberately isolate or ignore any child.
v) The staff shall advise against early marriage and support children continuing their education.
vi) No employee shall emotionally manipulate a child to the staff's advantage.
vii) No staff shall send a child out of class for absenteeism or lateness.
viii) An employee shall show maximum consideration for feeling and circumstances of learners.
ix) The staff will control his/her utterances in order not to threaten with cruel and degrading punishment or hurt the pupil/student.
x) An employee will intervene to stop a pupil/student from perpetrating psychological abuse on another pupil/student.
xi) A staff shall intervene to stop a fellow employee from perpetrating psychological abuse on another pupil/student.
c. Sexual Violence
i) No employee shall directly or indirectly do anything that may constitute sexual harassment of a pupil/student.
ii) Any staff who has carnal knowledge of any female or male pupil/student of any age, with or without his/her consent, shall be guilty of professional misconduct.
iii) No employee shall compel any female or male pupil/student in his/her school or in any educational institution to marry him/her with or without the consent of the child's parents.
iv) No staff shall have any carnal knowledge of any pupil/student in his/her own school or in any pre tertiary educational institution with or without his/her consent.
v) No employee shall serve as a go between or knowingly suffer any female or male pupil/student in his/her school or any other pre tertiary educational institution to resort to or be in or upon a premise for the purposes of carnal knowledge by any person or by himself/herself.
vi) No staff shall cause or encourage the seduction, carnal knowledge or prostitution of or the commission of
indecent assault upon a pupil/student.
vii) No employee shall detain any pupil/student for immoral purposes.
viii) No staff shall by false pretences or false representation procure any pupil/student to have any carnal knowledge with him/her.
ix) An employee shall not apply or administer to or cause to be taken by any pupil/student any illegal drugs, matter or thing with intent to stupefy or overpower him/her so as to enable the staff or any person to have carnal knowledge with such pupil/student.
x) No staff shall publicly or in secret wilfully commit any act of indecency towards any pupil/student.
xi) It shall be the responsibility of any staff who directly or indirectly gets to know of the occurrence of any of these acts to report it to his/her immediate superior.
xii) A staff shall intervene to stop a pupil/student from perpetrating sexual abuse or violence on another pupil/student.
xiii) No staff shall directly or indirectly, instigate, aid, or in any manner facilitate, encourage or promote whether by his/her acts or presence or otherwise, any of the above named acts.