Global Initiative briefings for human rights monitoring bodies

The Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children regularly submits briefings to the pre-sessional working groups of the UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies, including the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Committee against Torture, the Human Rights Committee, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Where possible, briefings are also submitted to regional treaty monitoring bodies, including the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The briefings summarise the legality of corporal punishment and any relevant research in member states being examined during each of the sessions of the Committees, and call for specific recommendations to be made in relation to children’s right to protection from all violence under the Convention concerned.

Briefings are also produced for special or ad hoc global events and meetings and/or to address particular issues or aspects of law reform. These normally include information on progress towards prohibition of corporal punishment worldwide and other relevant information as well as information on specific states.

The full texts of briefings since September 2006 are available by clicking on the links in the list below. Concluding observations and recommendations relating to corporal punishment are included in the Global Initiative individual country reports. For up to date information on the legality of corporal punishment in states worldwide, view our state-by-state analysis.

Briefings for ordinary sessions of treaty monitoring bodies:

Note: The briefings are for the Committees’ pre-sessional working groups and so relate to the countries to be examined by the Committees in following sessions.

Committee on the Rights of the Child (monitoring implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child):

• January/February 2007 – re Kazakhstan, Maldives, Slovak Republic, Uruguay
  
  
• September 2006 – re Chile, Honduras, Kenya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Suriname

Committee against Torture (monitoring implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment):

• April/May 2007 - re Norway, Estonia, Portugal, Australia, Benin, Uzbekistan, Latvia
  
  
• October/November 2006 – re Italy, Ukraine, Denmark, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Poland, Japan

Human Rights Committee (monitoring implementation of the International Covenant on civil and Political Rights):

• March 2007 – re Austria, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Grenada, Sudan, Zambia
  
  
• October/November 2006 – re Barbados, Chile, Rwanda, Zambia

 Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (monitoring implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women):

• February 2007 – re Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cook Islands, Estonia, Guinea, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Singapore 

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (monitoring implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights):

• May 2007 - re France, Paraguay, India, San Marino
  
  
• November/December 2006 – re Nepal, Belgium, Costa Rica, Ukraine

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (monitoring implementation of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights):

• November 2006 – re Zambia, Uganda, Nigeria

Briefings for global events and meetings

4^th session of the Human Rights Council, 12 March – 5 April 2007, Geneva

51^st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, 26 February – 9 March 2007, New York

Other briefings

Briefing for national human rights institutions and other children’s advocates (December 2006)

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