Date: February 2001

Trinidad and Tobago prohibits school and penal system corporal punishment

Trinidad and Tobago told the Human Rights Committee in January 2001 that the Children (Amendment) Act, No. 68 of 2000 brings legislation on children in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Act abolishes the right of a court to order corporal punishment as a penal sanction against children and prohibits teachers from inflicting corporal punishment against children in schools. The Government was responding to the Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee which raised the issue when it examined the State’s third and fourth periodic reports.

(CCPR/CO/70/TTO/Add.1, 15 January 2001)

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