RGA/4/7
Sponsored by Grace Wehby, Saule Bernotas, Grace Bauer of St. Cecilia Academy
The delegates above represented the Delegation of Lebanon.
This legislation was filed in the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural category
Presented as part of the MUN B 2023 conference
| 1 | Deeply conscious of the intolerable yet regrettably frequent use of corporal punishment on |
| 2 | children, the long-term mental harm this form of punishment causes, and the lack of repercussions |
| 3 | for offenders, in addition to the epidemic of violence that has continuously proven to have |
| 4 | detrimental consequences on the development of children across the globe; |
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| 6 | Acknowledging the prevalence of corporal punishment globally, according to World Health |
| 7 | Organization, 60% of children from ages 2-14 alone suffer from various forms of physical |
| 8 | punishment; |
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| 10 | Aware of the fact that corporal punishment has lasting effects on its victims even after they reach |
| 11 | adulthood, such as physical and mental health complications, impaired cognitive and socio- |
| 12 | emotional development, deficient educational outcomes, increased aggression, and perpetration of |
| 13 | violence causing a vicious cycle to plague generation after generation; |
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| 15 | Alarmed that only 14% of the world’s population of children under the age of 18 is fully protected |
| 16 | by their governments from corporal punishment in the home and all other settings, according to |
| 17 | Human Rights Watch; |
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| 19 | Further alarmed by the vulnerability of Middle Eastern children in schools and refugee camps, |
| 20 | faced with subhuman conditions and treatment, and aware that the primary reason for Lebanese |
| 21 | children withdrawing from school is the excessive and outright abusive use of corporal punishment |
| 22 | on students continuously; |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Thoroughly concerned that 128 countries lack comprehensive and explicit bans on all use of |
| 25 | corporal punishment on adolescents; |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Additionally appalled that 107 state governments are not committed to the reform of their laws |
| 28 | regarding corporal punishment; |
| 29 | |
| 30 | Noting further that out of those 107 countries, fifteen lack any restrictions against the use of |
| 31 | corporal punishment on adolescents, thirty-three countries allow it to be used as a juvenile |
| 32 | sentence for crime, and sixty-three countries do not fully prohibit the use of corporal punishment |
| 33 | in schools; |
| 34 |