{"id":3123,"date":"2017-12-21T18:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.endcorporalpunishment.net\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2020-01-16T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T16:02:29","slug":"cedaw-recommends-prohibition-at-68th-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/cedaw-recommends-prohibition-at-68th-session\/","title":{"rendered":"CEDAW recommends prohibition at 68th session"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"col-lg-9\">\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>At the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women\u2019s 68<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0session, recommendations and observations on corporal punishment were issued to states under review:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To\u00a0<strong>Kuwait<\/strong>, the Committee expressed concern about the Penal Code provision allowing parents to physically discipline their child and recommended its repeal.<\/li>\n<li>To\u00a0<strong>Singapore<\/strong>, 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 \u201cwould consider the issue\u201d of introducing a blanket ban of corporal punishment of children.<\/li>\n<li>During the dialogue with\u00a0<strong>Oman<\/strong>, the Committee raised the issue of the Penal Code provision allowing the \u201cdisciplining\u201d of a child, stating that it was \u201cno longer acceptable\u201d. 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For further details, see the Global Initiative\u2019s individual country reports for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.endcorporalpunishment.org\/progress\/country-reports\/kuwait.html\">Kuwait<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.endcorporalpunishment.org\/progress\/country-reports\/oman.html\">Oman<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.endcorporalpunishment.org\/progress\/country-reports\/singapore.html\">Singapore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s recommendations in full, see the Global Initiative&#8217;s page on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.endcorporalpunishment.org\/prohibiting-corporal-punishment\/hrlaw\/cedaw\/\">Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-7\">\n<div class=\"list-group\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"col-lg-3\">\n<div class=\"list-group\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women\u2019s 68th\u00a0session, recommendations and observations on corporal punishment were issued to states under review: To\u00a0Kuwait, the Committee expressed concern about the Penal Code provision allowing parents to physically discipline their child and recommended its repeal. To\u00a0Singapore, the Committee recommended the revision and\/or repeal of relevant legislation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[148,29],"tags":[78,53,43],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-girls-and-gender","category-news","tag-cedaw","tag-recommendations","tag-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}