Strasbourg, 04/03/2015 (Agence Europe) - In a decision published on Wednesday 4 March, the European Committee for Social Rights (ECSR) and the Council of Europe (CoE) stated: “French law does not contain a sufficiently clear, binding and precise ban on corporal punishment inflicted on children either in its law or jurisprudence”.
Consisting of 15 independent and impartial delegates who are elected for six years by the Committee of Ministers of the CoE, the ECSR is in charge of...