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New Legal Reform Briefings from the Global Initiative

Latest recommendations from the Committee on the Rights of the Child

East Asia and the Pacific – report of legal reform workshop

Global Initiative e-newsletter Issue 8 (June 2009) now available

FAQs about prohibition – new publications to support law reform

Global Initiative e-newsletter Issue 7 (March 2009) now available

Inter-American Court confirms obligation to prohibit all corporal punishment

Moldova prohibits all corporal punishment

Revised legal reform handbook now available

Committee on the Rights of the Child recommends prohibition following 50th session

Global Initiative e-newsletter Issue 6 (January 2009) now available

CAT recommends prohibition in the home

CEDAW recommends that Ecuador prohibit corporal punishment in the home

Latest Global Initiative newsletter published

Council of Europe Commissioner criticises UK’s record on corporal punishment

Global Report 2008 on worldwide progress towards prohibition

Report of the first Global Workshop on law reform

Bhutan, Djibouti and the UK must enact laws to prohibit corporal punishment in all settings, including the home

Global Initiative e-newsletter Issue 4 (September 2008) now available

Briefing on corporal punishment for World Congress against Sexual Exploitation

Costa Rica achieves full prohibition

Treaty bodies recommend prohibition of corporal punishment

Committee on the Rights of the Child presses states to prohibit corporal punishment in the home

States called to account concerning corporal punishment of children in Universal Periodic Review process

UN Committee Against Torture recommends prohibition in the home

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights adopts resolution against corporal punishment of all persons deprived of their liberty

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