... your shirt un tucked or how would you like to be hit with the cane for something that someone else had done and had blamed on you. Article 19 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child requires States to protect children from "all forms of physical or mental violence" while in the care of parents or others. The Committee on the Rights of the Child has consistently interpreted the Convention as requiring States to protect children from all corporal punishment and has recommended that prohibition should be accompanied by public education to promote positive discipline. Over the last decade, a series of judgments from constitutional and supreme courts and from the European Court of Human Rights have challenged the legality of corporal punishment of children, schools and in some cases in the family home. Its illegal in almost every state worldwide - in contrast to other forms of inter-personal violence - ...

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