{"id":23246,"date":"2022-09-28T13:21:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T12:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/?p=23246"},"modified":"2022-09-28T21:21:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:21:51","slug":"comoros-prohibits-corporal-punishment-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/comoros-prohibits-corporal-punishment-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Comoros prohibits corporal punishment in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n            <div class=\"separator- glacier-section\"  id=\"section-69d79d8a0a571\">\n            <div class=\"container\">\n                <section>\n                    \n<div class=\"row\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-8\" style=\"background: transparent  \">\n\t<div class=\"text-block shortcode-container\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\n\t<div><div><p>In 2020 Comoros enacted prohibition of all corporal punishment in schools, under article 5 of Law No. 20-034\/AU of 2020, making it the 136<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0state worldwide to achieve prohibition in this setting.\u00a0<\/p><p>The amendment revised Law No. 94-035\/AF of 2005 on Education Orientation, which states [unofficial translation]: \u201c<span lang=\"en\">Educational institutions guarantee respect for human rights as well as physical and moral integrity. Corporal punishment, moral abuse, harassment, and all other forms of violence are prohibited in educational institutions and are sanctioned by administrative measures and\/or legal proceedings.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span lang=\"en\">We are seeking further information about implementation measures to ensure that corporal punishment in schools is fully eliminated in practice.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p><\/div><div>We congratulate Comoros on the achievement of this essential reform, marking a vital step forward for children, and we urge that prohibition of corporal punishment in all other settings of children's lives including\u00a0the home, alternative care settings, day care, penal institutions and as a sentence for crime is enacted without delay.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><\/div><div>Find out more:<\/div><div>Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/comoros\/\">country report for Comoros<\/a><\/div><div>Read about <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/africa\/\">progress in Africa<\/a><\/div><div>Find out about <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/schools\/\">global progress in prohibiting corporal punishment in schools<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-4\" style=\"background: transparent  \">\n\t<div class=\"feature-box text-center media-box \">\n    <div class=\"fbox-media\">\n                    <a href=\"\" target=\"_self\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" data-no-retina src=\"\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bar-Chart-EN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" class=\"img-responsive\" \/>\n            <\/a>\n        \t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"fbox-desc\">\n        <h2><\/h2>\n        <span class=\"subtitle\">Comoros is the 136th state to prohibit corporal punishment in schools<\/span>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"row\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12\" style=\"background: transparent  \">\n\t\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n                <\/section>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020 Comoros enacted prohibition of all corporal punishment in schools, under article 5 of Law No. 20-034\/AU of 2020, making it the 136th\u00a0state worldwide to achieve prohibition in this setting.\u00a0The amendment revised Law No. 94-035\/AF of 2005 on Education Orientation, which states [unofficial translation]: \u201cEducational institutions guarantee respect for human rights as well as [&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":[107,30,116,106,33,29,105,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-english","category-global","category-global-progress","category-news","category-region","category-schools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23246","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=23246"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23267,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23246\/revisions\/23267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}