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Global Initiative Newsletters
Global and Regional Reports and Tables
NEW! Global Report 2007 on progress towards eliminating corporal punishment. Published October 2007.
The Global Initiative has submitted reports with recommendations to each of the nine regional consultations organised for the Study between March and July 2005, available below.
Caribbean Consultation, March 2005, PDF 760 KB
South Asia Consultation, May 2005, PDF 366 KB
West Africa Consultation, May 2005, PDF 612 KB French version.
Latin America Consultation, May 2005, PDF 868 KB Spanish version.
Latin America Consultation, May 2005, PDF 868 KB English version.
North America Consultation, June 2005, PDF 524 KB
East Asia and Pacific Consultation, June 2005, PDF 819 KB
Middle East and North Africa Consultation, June 2005, PDF 1.2 MB Arabic version.
Middle East and North Africa Consultation, June 2005, PDF 272 KB English version.
Europe and Central Asia Consultation, July 2005, PDF 1.0 MB
East and Southern Africa Consultation, July 2005, PDF 532 KB
All Africa Report, September 2007, PDF 1.0 MB
Our global and regional tables, available as PDF files (updated June 2007), summarise the extent of prohibition in the home, schools, as a sentence for crime, as a disciplinary measure in penal institutions, and in alternative care settings. Download from here:
Global Initiative briefings
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights – November 2006
Committee against Torture – April/May 2007; October/November 2006
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – May 2007; November/December 2006
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women – February 2007
Committee on the Rights of the Child – January/February 2007; September 2006
Human Rights Committee – March 2007; October/November 2006
Human Rights Council – March/April 2007
National human rights institutions (December 2006)
UN Commission on the Status of Women – February/March 2007
Prevalance research regional reports 2008
Caribbean, East and Southern Africa, East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa, North America, South Asia, West and Central Africa
Additional Resources available to download:
Ending corporal punishment - Swedish Government booklet
A Generation Without Smacking - The impact of Sweden's ban on physical punishment
Detailed review of meta-analyses of research by Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff
Hitting people is wrong and children are people too