Human Rights Committee, session 63 (1998)

RECOMMENDATIONS/OBSERVATIONS ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE'S CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS TO STATES EXAMINED IN SESSION 63 (13-31 JULY 1998)

United Republic of Tanzania

(18 August 1998, CCPR/C/79/Add.97, Concluding observations on third report, para. 16)

"The Committee notes with approval the Nyalali Commission’s recommendation to abolish corporal punishment as a judicial sentence; such penalty should also be precluded for offences against prison regulations and children should no longer be subjected to corporal punishment in schools (art.7)."