Law reform has been achieved. Corporal punishment is unlawful in all settings, including the home. Corporal punishment is prohibited in the home.
Article The commission of such acts shall be punishable under the effective legislation of Georgia. Additionally, article The Code came into force in September In December , the Government indicated that it had produced guidance documents, trained specialists on the implications of the new law, established child protection services in municipalities, and launched a child protection hotline.
Prior to this reform, corporal punishment was not fully prohibited in the home. However, these provisions and others in the Code of Administrative Offences, the Law on Education , the Law on the Elimination of Domestic Violence and the Constitution did not explicitly prohibit all corporal punishment. The complaint concerned a teacher in a public kindergarten who allegedly inflicted corporal punishment on 4-year-old boy who sustained injuries on his face and ears. The communication was submitted before the enactment of the Code on the Rights of the Child in which had since prohibited corporal punishment in all settings.
This committed the Government to three to five years of accelerated action towards the achievement of Target Corporal punishment is unlawful in alternative care settings under article The Committee on the Rights of the Child issued a decision on the 27th of June , stating that Georgia violated its child rights obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child by failing to take immediate intervention to address the repeated physical and psychological abuse of children who lived in a close-type orphanage run by the Georgian Orthodox Church.
In particular, the report pointed out psychological and physical bullying among children, as well as corporal punishments by caregivers, including prostrations, confinement, and forced crawling. The authorities being unable to monitor children at the orphanage, the NGO Partnership for Human Rights took the matter to several courts in Tbilisi and finally to the Committee on the Rights of the Child in May Upon review of the complaint, the Committee requested Georgia to ensure effective reparation to the child victims such as adequate compensation and rehabilitation, a public apology and a reassessment of the children still under State care, amongst others.
