Summary: Save the Children Sweden and the Andean Commission of Jurists have requested a thematic hearing at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on corporal punishment of children.
The objective of the hearing is to request that the Commission includes corporal punishment of children as a breach of children's human rights within their existing monitoring mechanisms of human rights in the Americas. It is hoped that the Inter-American Commission will request that the InterAmerican Human Rights Court pronounces itself about the unlawfulness of this kind of violence against children. If the Court accepts the petition and issue an advisory opinion supporting the full abolition of all corporal punishment of children, it will be legally binding to all member-states of the Organisation of American States. The hearing will last approximately 45 minutes. Peter Newell, the Andean Commission of Jurists and Save the Children will be delivering statements to the Commission. Organisations involved in this hearing include: More information about the Commission is available here.
Hearing at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Corporal Punishment
Save the Children Sweden, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
CECODAP, Centro para la Paz y los Derechos Humanos, Venezuela
Dr. Mario Alberto Viquez Jimenez, The Children's Ombudsman Office of Costa Rica
EPOCH US, End all Coporal Punishment of Children
Secretariat for the UN Study on Violence Against Children
Maria de Rosario Nunes, Congresswoman, National Congress, Brazil
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