10Jan, 2020

Human Rights Committee issues recommendation on corporal punishment at 126th session

At the Human Rights Committee’s 126th session earlier in 2019, the Committee issued a recommendation on corporal punishment of children: To Mauritania, the Committee urged the State to repeal provisions within the Criminal Code which allow physical punishment as a sentence for a crime.   Further information For more information, see our detailed reports for Equatorial Guinea, […]

27Nov, 2019

Committee on the Rights of the Child makes recommendations on corporal punishment at 82nd session

The Committee on the Rights of the Child made recommendations on corporal punishment of children to all states examined during the 82nd session: For Australia, the Committee recalled their previous recommendation to explicitly prohibit corporal punishment in law in all settings and to repeal the legal defence of “reasonable chastisement”. It also recommended that awareness-raising […]