Date: April 2007

Global Initiative Briefings now available

Every year, the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children produces a number of briefings on children’s right to legal protection from all corporal punishment, including within the home, and documenting the legality of corporal punishment in particular states. These briefings are now being made available on this website.

Briefings are submitted regularly 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. They 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 each case.

Briefings are also produced for special meetings. The most recent are for the 4^th session of the Human Rights Council (March/April 2007) and the 51^st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (February/March 2007).

Click here for further information and to access the briefings.

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