24Jul, 2020

Committee Against Torture issues recommendations

At its 66th and 67th sessions in 2019, the Committee Against Torture issued recommendations and observations on corporal punishment of children to South Africa, Bangladesh and Togo. Further information Read the Global Initiative’s individual country reports for Bangladesh, South Africa and Togo. For further information on the obligation to prohibit corporal punishment under the Convention Against […]

21Jul, 2020

European Committee issues recommendations on corporal punishment

The 2019 Conclusions of the European Committee of Social Rights were published earlier this year. The Committee issued a total of 36 recommendations or observations on corporal punishment of children to the states examined during that session, including 11 states which are yet to enact a ban of all corporal punishment in their legislation: Armenia, […]

05Feb, 2020

Human Rights Committee issues recommendations on corporal punishment at 127th session

At the Human Rights Committee’s 127th session in October/November 2019, the Committee issued the following recommendations on corporal punishment of children: The Committee urged the Czech Republic to explicitly prohibit corporal punishment in all settings, including the home, and to continue raising awareness of the harmful effects of corporal punishment and the existence of non-violent alternatives. […]

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, […]

06Dec, 2019

Human Rights Council’s 41st session adopts final reports for UPR 32

The Human Rights Council has adopted the final working group reports for the Universal Periodic Review’s 32nd session, which included states’ final formal responses to all recommendations extended. States can either ‘support’ (accept) or ‘note’ UPR recommendations. Afghanistan and Chile supported recommendations to prohibit all corporal punishment of children. Slovakia supported a recommendation to “put an […]

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 […]

20Sep, 2019

South Africa prohibits all corporal punishment of children

Updated 31 October 2019 to clarify the roles of our national partners   On 18 September 2019, the Constitutional Court of South Africa ruled that the common law defence of ‘reasonable and moderate chastisement’ was unconstitutional, effectively banning all corporal punishment of children. The Children’s Institute, the Peace Centre and Sonke Gender Justice were respondents […]