10Apr, 2024
Progress in Europe and Central Asia
States prohibiting all corporal punishment
2019 - Georgia, France, Rep of Kosovo 2017 - Lithuania 2016 - Montenegro, Slovenia 2015 - Ireland 2013 - North Macedonia | 2008 - Liechtenstein, 2006 - Greece 2005 - Hungary 2003 - Iceland 2002 - Turkmenistan | 1999 - Croatia 1998 - Latvia 1997 - Denmark 1994 - Cyprus 1989 - Austria 1987 - Norway 1983 - Finland 1979 - Sweden |
Territories: Faroe Islands, Jersey, Svalbard
Summary tables of progress
Regional campaigns against corporal punishment
EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child 2022
(Website in 24 languages)
“Raise your hand against smacking!”
Council of Europe
“A Non-violent Childhood”
Council of Baltic Sea States
European Network of Ombudspersons for Children
Regional publications
A series of guides on implementing laws prohibiting all corporal punishment (2018)
Progress towards prohibiting all corporal punishment of children in EU member states (2015)
Prohibiting corporal punishment in Central Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific (2014)
Abolishing corporal punishment of children
(multiple languages available from the Council of Europe website)
A series of booklets answering common questions about prohibiting all corporal punishment of children, including a booklet for children and one answering specific questions about corporal punishment in schools. Now available in 14 languages.
News from Europe and Central Asia
13Feb, 2024
Regional human rights
The Council of Europe on corporal punishment of children:
European Convention on Human Rights
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation confirms the obligation to prohibit all corporal punishment of children:
The European Union calls for prohibition in all member states in a number of resolutions: