At the time of writing (May 2014), 37 states across all world regions have achieved law reform to prohibit all corporal punishment of children, including in the home. A further 46 states have expressed a commitment to enacting prohibiting legislation, by unequivocally accepting recommendations to do so made during their Universal Periodic Reviews and/or in other official contexts. Outside the home, 43 states have prohibited corporal punishment in all alternative care settings and in all day care, 121 have prohibited it in all schools, 127 in penal institutions and 159 as a sentence for crime.

 

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