Human Rights Council’s 40th session adopts final reports for UPR 31

The Human Rights Council has adopted the final working group reports for the Universal Periodic Review’s 31st session, which included states’ formal responses to all recommendations extended. States can either ‘support’ (accept) or ‘note’ UPR recommendations. China, Mauritius and Mexico supported recommendations to prohibit all corporal punishment of children. Malaysia noted several recommendations on the abolition […]

African newsletter (issue 31) is out now in English and French

Our African newsletters are published quarterly in English and French, providing a round-up of recent developments, campaigns and positive moves towards ending corporal punishment from across the continent. This latest edition also presents new resources to support advocacy on the issue, as well as information from African and UN human rights monitoring bodies, including new […]

Promoting law reform to prohibit all corporal punishment of children in Indonesia

The Indonesian Alliance for the Elimination of Violence against Children (Aliansi Penghapusan Kekerasan terhadap Anak) in partnership with the Global Initiative, and with funding from the INSPIRE fund, held a workshop on “Promoting and achieving law reform to prohibit all corporal punishment of children in Indonesia”. The workshop took place on 8-10 April 2019 in […]

ACERWC recommends prohibition of corporal punishment at 30th session

Concluding observations from the 30th session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child’s in December 2017 have been published. Both states reviewed received recommendations to prohibit all corporal punishment of children: The Committee noted that corporal punishment was still “highly practiced” in Angola and recommended that the Government […]

Zimbabwe Constitutional Court outlaws judicial corporal punishment

On 3 April 2019, the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe ruled that, with immediate effect, no male juvenile convicted of any offence could be sentenced to receive corporal punishment. The prohibition was extended to apply to sentences of corporal punishment which had already been imposed but were awaiting execution. The decision confirmed a 2014 judgment by […]