Plateforme de suivi de l'EPU / UPR monitoring platform

The prohibition and the elimination of corporal punishment of children remains a concern in several parts of the world.

Although 46 States prohibited any corporal punishment of the children and that at least 50 other States began to prohibit it, there is still a lot to be done elsewhere.

This remains a current issue in a certain number of states where the Universal Periodic Review of will set their overall records in the field of human rights.

Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children presents on his Web site « briefings on every state being reviewed, sharing advance draft briefings with relevant organisations to encourage submissions at national level. [They] also conduct a follow-up program, pursuing the issue with states that accept recommendations to prohibit corporal punishment by writing to key NGOs, NHRIs and Government ministers »

Global Initiative also proposes a follow-up program which consists in « pursuing the issue with states that accept recommendations to prohibit corporal punishment by writing to key NGOs, NHRIs and Government ministers »

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References : - www.endcorporalpunishment.org/assets/pdfs/newsletters/Africa%20Newsletter%2019%20June%202015%20EN.pdf

- www.endcorporalpunishment.org/