Eliminating corporal punishment : a human rights imperative for Europe's children - StrasbourgFR Council of Europe Publishing 2005 - 220 p.

Summarises the jurisprudence of the UN Committee in the Rights of the Child, other UN human rights bodies and the European Committee of Social Rights and the progressive condemnation of corporal punishment by the European Court of Human Rights. Highlights the experience of the growing number of member states which have explicity prohibited corporal punishment. Includes a state-by-state analysis of the legal status of corporal punishment.


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