Govt. to ban corporal punishment
The government has decided to prohibit corporal punishment.
Taking to ‘X’, President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that the Cabinet had approved amendments to the Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code to prohibit corporal punishment.
Pointing out that UNCRC Article 19 urges protection against all forms of violence towards children, the President has said the Committee on the Rights of the Child, in General Comment No. 8, stresses that corporal punishment must be prohibited in all settings.
President Wickremesinghe has said that the Cabinet approval paves the way for legal protections to ensure that no child in Sri Lanka suffers physical or mental violence.
The President has said the decision to ban corporal punishment was taken in view of the ‘International Day to End Corporal Punishment’, which fell on 30 April.
