Date: January 2005

Malta told to prohibit corporal punishment in family by Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights encouraged Malta "to consider an explicit prohibition on corporal punishment within the family" when it examined the state's initial report under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in November 2004. The Committee concluded: "While corporal punishment is prohibited in schools and other institutions, the Committee notes that corporal punishment within the family, in the form of "reasonable chastisement", is not prohibited by law".

(E/C.12/1/Add.101, 26 November 2004, paras. 22 and 40; see www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cescr/docs/e_c12_1_add101.pdf )

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