CRC
UNITED
NATIONS
Convention on the
Rights of the Child
Distr.
GENERAL
CRC/C/GC/8*
2 March 2007
Original: ENGLISH
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
Forty-second session
Geneva, 15 May-2 June 2006
GENERAL COMMENT No. 8 (2006)
The right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel
or degrading forms of punishment (arts. 19; 28, para. 2; and 37, inter alia)
*
Re-issued for technical reasons
GE.07-40771