Introducing the Global Initiative

• Background
• Use of this website
• Supporters
• Become a supporting organisation
• FAQs
• Latest developments
• Newsletters

Human rights, law and corporal punishment

• Committee on the Rights of the Child
• Other human rights instruments
• Key judgments
• Global Initiative briefings for human rights monitoring bodies

Global progress

• Introduction (includes global and regional summary tables)
• Countdown to universal prohibition
• Online global table: legality of corporal punishment
• Global report 2009
• Individual state reports
• GI reports for UN Secretary General's Study
• States which have prohibited

Research

• Introduction
• Research and children
• The nature and extent of corporal punishment – prevalence and attitudinal research
• Effects of corporal punishment
• Statements by children and their organisations

Resources

• Downloads
• Positive discipline
• Links to websites

Latest developments

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