{"id":11340,"date":"2018-11-30T14:35:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T14:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/?p=11340"},"modified":"2018-11-30T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T14:35:57","slug":"states-receive-recommendations-on-corporal-punishment-at-upr-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/states-receive-recommendations-on-corporal-punishment-at-upr-31\/","title":{"rendered":"States receive recommendations on corporal punishment at UPR 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Universal Periodic Review\u2019s 31<sup>st<\/sup> session finished on 16 November 2018. Most of the states which were under examination by the Working Group received recommendations on corporal punishment:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Monaco<\/strong> supported several clear recommendations to adopt legislation explicitly prohibiting corporal punishment of children in all settings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Chad<\/strong> and <strong>Senegal<\/strong> gave mixed responses to recommendations on corporal punishment, both supporting one and noting the other.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Belize <\/strong>noted (did not support) recommendations to prohibit all corporal punishment of children.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The <strong>Central African Republic<\/strong>, <strong>China<\/strong>, <strong>Malaysia<\/strong>, <strong>Mauritius<\/strong>, <strong>Mexico<\/strong> and <strong>Saudi Arabia<\/strong> all received recommendations to prohibit corporal punishment and deferred their responses to the 40<sup>th<\/sup> session of the Human Rights Council in March 2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Congo\u00a0(Republic of)<\/strong> received recommendations on the implementation of the existing ban to eliminate corporal punishment and deferred its answer until March 2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Jordan<\/strong> and <strong>Nigeria<\/strong> did not receive specific recommendations on corporal punishment, despite not having enacted a ban. <strong>Malta<\/strong>, which achieved prohibition in 2014, also did not receive a recommendation on corporal punishment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For further details, see the Global Initiative\u2019s individual country reports for <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/belize\/\">Belize<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/central-african-republic\/\">Central African Republic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/chad\/\">Chad<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/china\/\">China<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/congo-republic-of\/\">Congo (Republic of)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/jordan\/\">Jordan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/malaysia\/\">Malaysia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/malta\/\">Malta<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/mauritius\/\">Mauritius<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/mexico\/\">Mexico<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/monaco\/\">Monaco<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/saudi-arabia\/\">Saudi Arabia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/senegal\/\">Senegal<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Visit our page on the <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/human-rights-law\/universal-periodic-review-upr\/\">Universal Periodic Review<\/a> for more information on the review process.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Universal Periodic Review\u2019s 31st session finished on 16 November 2018. Most of the states which were under examination by the Working Group received recommendations on corporal punishment: Monaco supported several clear recommendations to adopt legislation explicitly prohibiting corporal punishment of children in all settings. Chad and Senegal gave mixed responses to recommendations on corporal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11342,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340\/revisions\/11342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}