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BOLIVIA: State bans all corporal punishment of children
11/Aug/2014 News
The State has become the sixth Latin American country and thirty-ninth worldwide to prohibit all corporal punishment outright. 
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UNITED KINGDOM: Report into child abuse at school for vulnerable boys "suppressed"
5/Jun/2014 News
A health professional who reported widespread child abuse at a school for vulnerable boys in the 1990s believes his report was "suppressed".
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HOLY SEE: Notes from the UN Committee Against Torture’s review
19/May/2014 News
In May 2014 the UNCAT reviewed the Holy See, and asked detailed questions about child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Read the “unofficial minutes” produced by the World Organization Against Torture and CRIN.
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VIOLENCE: Disabled children suffer alleged four year period of abuse at school, claim parents' group
30/Apr/2014 News
Families have taken legal advice and are pressing for a full, independent investigation into their allegations which, they say, have been covered up by Dundee City Council.
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CHINA: Teacher caught on camera ‘kicking and beating’ Beijing toddlers
30/Apr/2014 News
Kindergarten teacher arrested after security camera footage emerges showing abuse of children.
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UNITED KINGDOM: Teacher suspended after 'taping pupils' mouths up'
6/Mar/2014 News
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MACEDONIA: State prohibits all corporal punishment of children
25/Feb/2014 News
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has become the 36th State to ban all forms of corporal punishment of children in all settings, including the home. 
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