BIBLIOGRAPHY & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Statutes

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950). For text, see P. R. Ghandhi, Blackstone’s International Human Rights Documents (Oxford University Press, 3rd Edition 2002) pg 215

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966). For text, see I. Brownlie and G.S. Goodwin-Gill, Basic Documents on Human Rights, (Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 2002), pg 182.

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). For text, see P. R. Ghandhi, Blackstone’s International Human Rights Documents (Oxford University Press, 3rd Edition 2002) pg 119

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). For text, see I. Brownlie and G.S. Goodwin-Gill, Basic Documents on Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 2002), pg 18.

Cases

Canadian Foundation For Children, Youth & The Law v Attorney General & Ors (30.1.2004)

Tyrer v UK (1978) 2 EHRR 1

Costello-Roberts v UK (1995) 19 EHRR

Av UK (1999) 27 EHRR 611

Documents

General Comment No. 24: Issues relating to reservations made upon ratification or accession to the Covenant or the Optional Protocols thereto, or in relation to declarations under article 41 of the Covenant : . 04/11/94.

Research

Rachel Hodgkin and Peter Newell, Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, (United nations Children’s Fund 2002)

The Concise Oxford Dictionary 8th Edition 1991 BCA

Peter Newell, Ending Corporal Punishment of Children (in Revisiting Children’s Rights, Fottrell 2000)

Steve Pete, To smack or not to smack? Should the law prohibit South African parents from imposing CP on their children? South African Journal on Human Rights Vol 14 1998 at pages 430-460

Jane Fortin, Children’s rights and the use of physical force Child and Family Law Quarterly (2001) at 243

M. Freeman, Time to stop hitting our children 1988 51 Childright 5-8

The Holy Bible (New International Version)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4600454.stm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_Punishment

http://www.corpun.com/

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engASA040011998

Thanks to Diedre Fottrell, my lecturer for all the guidance; and to Low Yin Chan for her assistance in research.