A/HRC/34/45 Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay and provided a platform for young people to make recommendations for the Secretary-General’s report on children’s protection from bullying and cyberbullying (see A/71/213, para. 27). 83. Children reflected on their perceptions and experience of bullying and cyberbullying, discussed the root causes and identified strategic measures for prevention and response. They highlighted that bullying was often part of a painful continuum of children’s exposure to violence and recognized the particular challenges faced at school, on the way to school and online. The children at the consultation were clear in their call: Listen to our voice: bullying hurts and it lasts … urgent action is needed to stop it; violence does not teach good behaviour, being a good model and promoting nonviolence conveys a good example for our lives; use dialogue and mediation before you let violence occur! Help us learn about prevention and our rights; help those who care for us so that they can help us better; and don’t forget: legislation is important and everyone needs to know it and respect it. 84. In November 2015, the twenty-seventh ASEAN Summit adopted the ASEAN Regional Plan of Action on the Elimination of Violence against Children. The Special Representative has been actively promoting its implementation, in collaboration with ASEAN member States, the ASEAN Secretariat and the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children. 85. The Regional Plan of Action is framed by the 2030 Agenda and provides a powerful example of how regional cooperation can support national action on the protection of children from violence and advance progress to achieve the violence-related Sustainable Development Goal targets. It proposes concrete actions within a realistic time frame, including the promotion of non-violent approaches to child discipline; the deinstitutionalization of children; the protection of children from online abuse; the promotion of child-friendly justice proceedings, the prevention of deprivation of liberty of children and the promotion of alternatives to detention; and awareness-raising campaigns to break through the invisibility of violence and secure the protection of child victims. 86. During the Special Representative’s mission to East Asia in June 2016, she met in Bangkok with the East Asia Regional Inter-Agency Child Protection Working Group, composed of United Nations agencies and civil society organizations, to encourage them to use the strategic opportunity of the Regional Plan of Action and the violence-related Sustainable Development Goal targets to accelerate progress in national-level action. 87. On the same occasion, she participated in a meeting hosted by the Government of Viet Nam with senior officials of ministries of social welfare and development of ASEAN countries and the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children, which will conduct an annual review of implementation of the Regional Plan of Action on the basis of reporting by member States. The meeting helped to further advance national implementation of the Regional Plan of Action and build upon the High Time to End Violence against Children initiative in raising awareness and spurring action towards ending violence against children in ASEAN member States. 88. As part of her commitment to strengthening child participation and engagement with children around the world, the Special Representative was a keynote speaker at the fourth ASEAN Children’s Forum, also hosted by the Government of Viet Nam. The Forum provided a platform for children from across ASEAN countries to reflect together on key concerns facing children and young people in the region and to propose recommendations to strengthen the protection of children from violence, to secure online safety and to fight trafficking. In the open debate held between the child representatives, representatives of the ASEAN Commission and the Special Representative, the young participants called for 18