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Wednesday February 4, 2004
United Nations Insists Japan, Armenia and Guyana Criminalize Spanking by Parents
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GENEVA, February 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its thirty-fifth session Friday and issued its conclusions and recommendations to various countries reporting on their compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Convention prohibits parents from using spanking as a form of discipline and intrudes on many other aspects of family life including insisting on graphic sex education, and major restrictions on parental authority over their minor children.
A UN press release on the session indicates that during the session the committee told Japan, Guyana and Armenia to outlaw spanking, however light, by parents in the home. "After considering the second periodic report of Japan," says the report, the Committee told Japanese government representatives they should "prohibit corporal punishment in institutions and the home."
Similar recommendations were given to Guyanese officials who were told to "expressly prohibit corporal punishment by law in the family, schools and other institutions." The Committee told Armenia to "adopt specific legislation and take other measures to prevent violence against children in all circumstances, including corporal punishment."
Of note the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada to ban spanking by parents of children under 2 and over twelve and outlaw it at any age with an implement such as a wooden spoon came after the same United Nations committee demanded Canada criminalize all spanking.
In stark contrast to its supposed concern for children over spanking, the UN and its various organizations have been militant promoters of abortion, homosexuality and just about any method of population control and the elimination of more children coming into the world. The usual two parent family life, within which children best thrive, is heavily undermined by many U.N. policies as part of its high priority population control agenda.
Poor countries are regularly blackmailed by UN and other international organizations into accepting population control measures in exchange for food and medical aid. Many of these nations are still denied the basic necessities for their children to survive and are instead inundated with condoms and other contraceptives and sex-ed programs.
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
U.N. Tells Canada to Outlaw All Corporal Punishment by Parents or Schools
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/oct/03100601.html
Canada's Top Court Criminalizes Spanking Under 2, Over 12 and With Any Objects
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/feb/04020201.html
See the UN release on the session:
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/hr4723.doc.htm
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