Date: February 2010

Latest recommendations from the Committee on the Rights of the Child

The Committee on the Rights of the Child has published its concluding observations on states examined at the 53^rd session, 11-29 January 2010.

The Committee examined the state party reports of El Salvador, Ecuador, Cameroon, Tajikistan, Paraguay, Mongolia, Burkina Faso and Norway. With the exception of Norway, which achieved full prohibition in 1987, the Committee made strong recommendations to all states to prohibit corporal punishment of children in all settings, including within the family home. The Committee repeatedly reminded states that the UN Study on Violence against Children had recommended prohibition of all forms of violence, including corporal punishment. To Mongolia, where proposals have been made to include prohibition in the current revision of the Family Law, the Committee recommended that the Government pass the proposed amendments.

The Committee’s recommendations relating to corporal punishment are available here and are included in the individual state reports for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mongolia, Paraguay and Tajikistan.

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