Human Rights Committee, session 92 (2008)

RECOMMENDATIONS/OBSERVATIONS ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE'S CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS TO STATES EXAMINED IN SESSION 92 (17 MARCH - 4 APRIL 2008)

Botswana

(24 April 2008, CCPR/C/BWA/CO/1, Concluding observations on initial report, para. 19)

"The Committee is concerned about the existence in law and in practice of penal corporal punishment in the State party, in violation of article 7 of the Covenant (art. 7).

The State party should abolish all forms of penal corporal punishment."