Peter Newell is an advocate for children’s rights, in the UK and internationally. In England he has chaired the NGO Children’s Rights Alliance and is Coordinator of the UK Children are unbeatable! Alliance, campaigning for abolition of all corporal punishment. In the 1990s he was Research Coordinator for the Commission on Children and Violence in the UK. Internationally, he is Joint Coordinator with Thomas Hammarberg of the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children. Together with his partner, Rachel Hodgkin, he prepared UNICEF’s Implementation Handbook on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. He has worked frequently as a consultant for UNICEF, in particular advising in general measures for implementation of the Convention of the Rights of the Child and on establishment of independent human rights institutions for children. He is also Adviser to the European Network of Ombudspeople for Children. Peter is a member of the NGO Advisory Panel for the Secretary General’s Study.