Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, session 10 (2013)

RECOMMENDATIONS/OBSERVATIONS ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THE COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES' CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS TO STATES EXAMINED IN SESSION 10 (2-13 SEPTEMBER 2013)

El Salvador

(8 October 2013, CRPD/C/SLV/CO/1, Concluding observations on initial report, paras. 35 and 36)

"The Committee is concerned at: ...

d) the lack of an express ban on corporal punishment of children with disabilities….

"The Committee urges the State party: ...

c) to follow up on the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC/C/SLV/CO/3-4) regarding the express prohibition of all forms of corporal punishment and ensure that the prohibition includes practices in institutions for children with disabilities…."