| Title | 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) |
| Publisher | UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) |
| Publication Date | 2 March 2007 |
| Topics | Children's rights | Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment |
| Citation / Document Symbol | CRC/C/GC/8 |
| Reference | 42nd Session |
| Other Languages / Attachments | Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish |
| Cite as | UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), 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), 2 March 2007, CRC/C/GC/8, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/460bc7772.html [accessed 17 January 2017] |
| Comments | Adopted by the Committee at its Forty-second session Geneva, 15 May-2 June 2006 |