School corporal punishment

In an interview survey of 1,200 pupils aged 9-17 years in 24 secondary schools, 56.1% reported being whipped by their teachers (55.7% boys, 57.8% girls), using branches from trees, pieces of wood, rulers, metal strips from old tables and other parts of old school furniture, or hands. 18% reported being made to kneel down by teachers, 20.2% being shaken, and 26.3% being slapped. 26.2% reported suffering injuries as a result of abuse by teachers.

(Gill-Marshall, 2000, "Child Abuse in Guyana: A study of teacher abuse of children", University of Guyana Thesis, cited in NGO Report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2003)

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