Portugal: European Committee of Social Rights declares admissible complaint that domestic law does not prohibit all corporal punishment of children

World Organisation Against Torture vs. Portugal

The complaint, lodged on 31 May 2006, relates to Article 17 (right of children and young persons to social, legal and economic protection of the Revised Social Charter. It is alleged that domestic law does not explicitly nor effectively prohibit all corporal punishment of children.

The European Committee of Social Rights declared the complaint admissible on 12 June 2006.

pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/omct_port_cp.pdf

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