{"id":17050,"date":"2020-01-10T14:10:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T14:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/?p=17050"},"modified":"2020-01-10T14:24:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T14:24:26","slug":"human-rights-committee-126-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/human-rights-committee-126-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Committee issues recommendation on corporal punishment at 126th session"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the Human Rights Committee\u2019s 126<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0session earlier in 2019, the Committee issued a recommendation on corporal punishment of children:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To\u00a0<strong>Mauritania<\/strong>, the Committee urged the State to repeal provisions within the Criminal Code which allow physical punishment as a sentence for a crime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Further information<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For more information, see our detailed reports for <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/equatorial-guinea\/\">Equatorial Guinea<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/mauritania\/\">Mauritania<\/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\/netherlands\/\">Netherlands<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/paraguay\/\">Paraguay<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/Tajikistan\/\">Tajikistan<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>For further information on the obligation to prohibit corporal punishment under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and to see the Committee\u2019s recommendations in full, see the Global Initiative\u2019s page on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/human-rights-law\/iccpr\/\">International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For information on how you can support the campaign to protect all children from corporal punishment, visit our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/get-involved\/\">Get involved<\/a>\u00a0page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Human Rights Committee\u2019s 126th\u00a0session earlier in 2019, the Committee issued a recommendation on corporal punishment of children: To\u00a0Mauritania, the Committee urged the State to repeal provisions within the Criminal Code which allow physical punishment as a sentence for a crime. \u00a0 Further information For more information, see our detailed reports for Equatorial Guinea, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[30,29,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17054,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17050\/revisions\/17054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}