Date: June 2006

Committee on the Rights of the Child issues more recommendations to ban all corporal punishment -
42^nd session, May/June 2006

At its 42^nd session, the Committee on the Rights of the Child considered the state party reports of Colombia, Latvia, Lebanon, Mexico, Turkmenistan, the United Republic of Tanzania, and Uzbekistan, and examined the government delegations on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in their countries. Once again, in its concluding observations to states parties the Committee made strong recommendations against corporal punishment of children.

The Committee consistently recommended that corporal punishment be explicitly prohibited in legislation in all sectors of society, including within the home and family, and that prohibition be accompanied by awareness-raising and public education campaigns against corporal punishment and promoting non-violent, participatory methods of childrearing and education.

The Committee also recommended that governments take into account its new General Comment No. 8 on the Right of the Child to Protection from Corporal Punishment and Other Cruel or Degrading Forms of Punishment (2006), adopted during the session and published alongside the concluding observations.

Extracts from the concluding observations concerning corporal punishment are available here.

A summary of the new General Comment on the Right of the Child to Protection from Corporal Punishment and Other Cruel or Degrading Forms of Punishment (2006) is available here.

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