تنبيه بدنى كودكان - حسينى خواه، سيدجواد - الصفحة ٣٠١ - ث) تفسير عمومى شمارهى ٨ كميتهى حقوق كودك

to ensure that any methods used are safe and proportionate to the situation and do not involve the deliberate infliction of pain as a form of control.

IV. Human rights standards and corporal punishment of children

. Before the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Bill of Human Rights- the Universal Declaration and the two International Covenants, on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights- upheld

everyones right to respect for his/ her human dignity and physical integrity and to equal protection under the law. In asserting States obligation to prohibit and eliminate all corporal punishment and all other cruel or degrading forms of punishment, the Committee notes that the Convention on the Rights of the Child builds on this foundation. The dignity of each and every individual is the fundamental guiding principle of international human rights law.. The preamble to the Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms, in accordance with the principles in the Charter of the United Nations, repeated in the preamble to the UniversalD eclaration, that

recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. The preamble to the Convention also recalls that, in the Universal Declaration, the United Nations has proclaimed that childhood is entitled to special care and assistance. Article of the Convention requires States to ensure that

no child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. This is complemented and extended by article, which requires States to take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care of parent( s ), legal guardian) s (or any other person who has the