Ending Legalised Violence Against Children - East Asia and the Pacific

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Summary: Report for the East Asia and Pacific Regional
Consultation for the UN Study on Violence
Against Children, taking place in Bangkok from
14 to 16 June 2005. Hitting people is wrong – and children are people too. Corporal
punishment of children breaches their fundamental rights to respect for
their human dignity and physical integrity. Its legality breaches their right
to equal protection under the law. Urgent action is needed in every region
of the world to respect fully the rights of all children – the smallest and
most fragile of people.

This report reviews law and policy in relation to corporal punishment and
deliberate humiliation of children in each state in East Asia and the Pacific.
It makes recommendations for law reform and other measures which it is
hoped will be adopted at the Consultation and pursued at a national,
regional and international level.
pdf: www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/pdfs/Report-EastAsiaPacific.pdf

Organisation: 
Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children

Countries

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