Human Rights Committee, session 68 (2000)

RECOMMENDATIONS/OBSERVATIONS ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE'S CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS TO STATES EXAMINED IN SESSION 68 (13-31 MARCH 2000)

Guyana

(25 April 2000, CCPR/C/79/Add.121, Concluding observations on second report, para. 12)

"The Committee is concerned that corporal punishment is still resorted to in the State party and regrets the lack of specific information on this issue.

The State party should take legal and other measures to eliminate this practice (art.7)."