CEDAW - End Corporal Punishment of Children https://endcorporalpunishment.org End corporal punishment of children end violence against children Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:02:29 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://endcorporalpunishment.org/wp-content/uploads/Logos-2023/cropped-ECP-Logo-01-32x32.png CEDAW - End Corporal Punishment of Children https://endcorporalpunishment.org 32 32 CEDAW recommends prohibition at 68th session https://endcorporalpunishment.org/cedaw-recommends-prohibition-at-68th-session/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cedaw-recommends-prohibition-at-68th-session https://endcorporalpunishment.org/cedaw-recommends-prohibition-at-68th-session/#respond Thu, 21 Dec 2017 18:30:56 +0000 http://www.endcorporalpunishment.net/?p=3123 At the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women’s 68th session, recommendations and observations on corporal punishment were issued to states under review: To Kuwait, the Committee expressed concern about the Penal Code provision allowing parents to physically discipline their child and recommended its repeal. To Singapore, the Committee recommended the revision and/or repeal of relevant legislation […]

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At the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women’s 68th session, recommendations and observations on corporal punishment were issued to states under review:

  • To Kuwait, the Committee expressed concern about the Penal Code provision allowing parents to physically discipline their child and recommended its repeal.
  • To Singapore, the Committee recommended the revision and/or repeal of relevant legislation in order to prohibit and eliminate corporal punishment of children in all settings. During the dialogue, the Government stated that it “would consider the issue” of introducing a blanket ban of corporal punishment of children.
  • During the dialogue with Oman, the Committee raised the issue of the Penal Code provision allowing the “disciplining” of a child, stating that it was “no longer acceptable”. Despite this and the continued legality of corporal punishment of children in the home, in care settings and in penal institutions, no recommendation on the issue was extended.

 

For further details, see the Global Initiative’s individual country reports for Kuwait, Oman and Singapore.

For further information on the obligation to prohibit corporal punishment under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and to see the Committee’s recommendations in full, see the Global Initiative’s page on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

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]]> https://endcorporalpunishment.org/cedaw-recommends-prohibition-at-68th-session/feed/ 0 Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and Committee on the Rights of the Child’s new joint general recommendation/general comment on harmful practices https://endcorporalpunishment.org/committee-on-the-elimination-of-discrimination-against-women-and-committee-on-the-rights-of-the-childs-new-joint-general-recommendationgeneral-comment-on-harmful-practices/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=committee-on-the-elimination-of-discrimination-against-women-and-committee-on-the-rights-of-the-childs-new-joint-general-recommendationgeneral-comment-on-harmful-practices Sun, 09 Nov 2014 08:35:04 +0000 http://www.endcorporalpunishment.net/?p=1037 The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child have issued a new joint general recommendation/general comment on harmful practices, which states that corporal punishment has been recognised as a harmful practice. The general recommendation/general comment identifies harmful practices as those which constitute a denial of […]

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The general recommendation/general comment identifies harmful practices as those which constitute a denial of the dignity and/or integrity of the individual and a violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms; constitute discrimination against women or children and result in negative consequences for them; are prescribed and/or kept in place by social norms that perpetuate male dominance and inequality of women and children; and are imposed on women and children by family, community members or society at large.

In the general recommendation/general comment, the Committees call on states to explicitly prohibit harmful practices by law. States must ensure that all legislation which condones, allows, or leads to harmful practices is repealed and that legislation which aims to effectively address and eliminate harmful practices complies with human rights standards and takes precedence over customary, traditional or religious laws which allow, condone or prescribe any harmful practice. The general recommendation/general comment states that it should be read in conjunction with the Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment No. 8 (2006) on the right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment.

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