{"id":250,"date":"2010-11-30T15:23:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T15:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minbyun.org\/english\/?p=250"},"modified":"2010-11-30T15:23:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T15:23:34","slug":"global-initiative-to-end-corporal-punishment-of-children-january-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minbyun.or.kr\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Global Initiative to End Corporal Punishment of Children&#8211;January 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>Global Initiative to End Corporal Punishment of Children<\/address>\n<address>Briefing for the Human Rights Council for the Republic of Korea&#8217;s UPR<\/address>\n<p>Corporal punishment of children breaches their rights to respect for human dignity and physical<br \/>\nintegrity and to equal protection under the law. It is recognised by the Committee on the Rights<br \/>\nof the Child and other treaty bodies, as well as by the UN Secretary General\u2019s Study on Violence<br \/>\nagainst Children, as a highly significant issue, both for asserting children\u2019s status as rights<br \/>\nholders and for the prevention of all forms of violence.<br \/>\nThe Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children has been regularly briefing<br \/>\nthe Committee on the Rights of the Child on this issue since 2002, and since 2004 has similarly<br \/>\nbriefed the Committee Against Torture, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination<br \/>\nAgainst Women, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the Human<br \/>\nRights Committee. There is growing progress now across all regions in challenging this very<br \/>\ncommon form of violence against children. But we are concerned that many States persist in<br \/>\nignoring treaty body recommendations to prohibit and eliminate all corporal punishment. We<br \/>\nhope that the UPR Process will give particular attention to states\u2019 response, or lack of response,<br \/>\nto the concluding observations from treaty bodies, on this and other key issues.<br \/>\nIn June 2006, the Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted General Comment No. 8 on<br \/>\n\u201cThe right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading<br \/>\nforms of punishment\u201d, which emphasises the immediate obligation on states parties to prohibit<br \/>\nall corporal punishment of children, including within the home. Other treaty bodies and also<br \/>\nregional human rights mechanisms have condemned all corporal punishment. In October 2006,<br \/>\nthe report of the UN Secretary General\u2019s Study on Violence against Children was submitted to<br \/>\nthe General Assembly. It recommends universal prohibition of all corporal punishment, setting a<br \/>\ngoal of 2009.<br \/>\nThis briefing describes the gaps in prohibition in the Republic of Korea, despite repeated<br \/>\nrecommendations by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.<br \/>\nWe hope the Review will highlight with concern the Republic of Korea\u2019s record of ignoring<br \/>\ntreaty body recommendations and strongly recommend that the government introduce<br \/>\nlegislation as a matter of urgency to prohibit corporal punishment of children in all settings,<br \/>\nincluding in the home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: Legality of corporal punishment in Republic of Korea<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>The home<br \/>\n<\/em>Corporal punishment is lawful in the home. Children have limited protection from violence under the<br \/>\nChild Welfare Act, the Penal Code, the Special Act on Punishment of Domestic Violence, the Act on<br \/>\nPrevention of Domestic Violence and Victim Protection, and the Constitution.<br \/>\nResearch in 2005, carried out as part of a comparative study of children\u2019s experiences in 8 countries in<br \/>\nSoutheast Asia and the Pacific, sought the views of 152 children in the Republic of Korea. Nearly all<br \/>\n(97.4%) reported having experienced corporal punishment in the home; 93.6% experienced corporal<br \/>\npunishment at school. Punishments mentioned by children included being slapped, whipped, beaten<br \/>\nwith a broomstick, punched, kicked and pinched.1<br \/>\n<em>Schools and other settings<br \/>\n<\/em>Corporal punishment is lawful in schools under article 18(1) of the Act on Primary and Secondary<br \/>\nEducation, which states: \u201cThe head of a school may discipline or otherwise guide students, under the<br \/>\nconditions as determined by Acts and subordinate statutes or school regulations, as deemed necessary<br \/>\nfor education &#8230;\u201d Article 31(7) of the Enforcement Decree of the Act states: \u201cWhen the chief of school<br \/>\neducates pupils in accordance with the regulations specified in article 18, paragraph 1 of the Act,<br \/>\nhe\/she shall employ such disciplinary or admonitory methods as not causing physical pain to pupils<br \/>\nexcept in cases unavoidable for the purpose of education.\u201d<br \/>\nIn the penal system, corporal punishment is unlawful as a sentence for crime and as a disciplinary<br \/>\nmeasure in penal institutions.<br \/>\nThere is no explicit prohibition of corporal punishment in alternative care settings.<br \/>\n<strong>II: Recommendations by human rights treaty monitoring bodies<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Committee on the Rights of the Child first recommended prohibition of corporal punishment of<br \/>\nchildren in the Republic of Korea in 1996, in its concluding observations on the state party\u2019s initial<br \/>\nreport (CRC\/C\/15\/Add.51, para. 22). In 2003, following examination of the second report, the<br \/>\nCommittee regretted the insufficient follow up to this recommendation (CRC\/C\/15\/Add.197, para. 7),<br \/>\nand stated (paras. 38 and 39):<br \/>\n\u201cThe Committee notes with great concern that corporal punishment is officially permitted in<br \/>\nschools. The Committee is of the opinion that corporal punishment does not conform with the<br \/>\nprinciples and provisions of the Convention, particularly since it constitutes a serious violation<br \/>\nof the dignity of the child (see similar observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and<br \/>\nCultural Rights, E\/C.12\/1\/Add.79, para. 36 [re UK]). The fact that the Ministry of Education<br \/>\nguidelines leave the decision on whether to use corporal punishment in schools to the<br \/>\nindividual school administrators suggests that some forms of corporal punishment are<br \/>\nacceptable and therefore undermines educational measures to promote positive, non-violent<br \/>\nforms of discipline.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Committee recommends that the State party:<br \/>\na) implement the recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission that the relevant<br \/>\nlegislation and regulations be amended to expressly prohibit corporal punishment in the home,<br \/>\nschools and all other institutions;<br \/>\nb) carry out public education campaigns about the negative consequences of ill-treatment of<br \/>\nchildren in order to change attitudes to corporal punishment, and promote positive, non-violent<br \/>\nforms of discipline in schools and at home as an alternative to such punishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>1 Beazley, H., S. Bessell, et al., 2006, What Children Say: Results of comparative research on the physical and emotional<br \/>\npunishment of children in Southeast Asia and Pacific, 2005, Stockholm, Save the Children Sweden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Initiative to End Corporal Punishment of Children Briefing for the Human Rights Council for the Republic of Korea&#8217;s UPR Corporal punishment of children breaches their rights to respect for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-difficult-to-categorize"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Global Initiative to End Corporal Punishment of Children-January 2008 - \ubbfc\uc8fc\uc0ac\ud68c\ub97c \uc704\ud55c \ubcc0\ud638\uc0ac\ubaa8\uc784<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.minbyun.or.kr\/?p=250\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ko_KR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Global Initiative to End Corporal Punishment of Children-January 2008 - \ubbfc\uc8fc\uc0ac\ud68c\ub97c \uc704\ud55c \ubcc0\ud638\uc0ac\ubaa8\uc784\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Global Initiative to End Corporal Punishment of Children Briefing for the Human Rights Council for the Republic of Korea&#8217;s UPR Corporal punishment of children breaches their rights to respect for [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.minbyun.or.kr\/?p=250\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"\ubbfc\uc8fc\uc0ac\ud68c\ub97c \uc704\ud55c \ubcc0\ud638\uc0ac\ubaa8\uc784\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-11-30T15:23:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"minbyun2024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"\uae00\uc4f4\uc774\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"minbyun2024\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"\uc608\uc0c1 \ub418\ub294 \ud310\ub3c5 \uc2dc\uac04\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5\ubd84\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.minbyun.or.kr\\\/?p=250#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.minbyun.or.kr\\\/?p=250\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"minbyun2024\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.minbyun.or.kr\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3a884842e3e595d95b85df9b77707b9b\"},\"headline\":\"Global Initiative to End Corporal Punishment of Children&#8211;January 2008\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-11-30T15:23:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.minbyun.or.kr\\\/?p=250\"},\"wordCount\":938,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.minbyun.or.kr\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"5. 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