African corporal punishment prohibition has stalled with no new countries since 2019

Evidence

The End Corporal Punishment campaign (formerly the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children), which maintains the definitive global country-status tracking database, reports that as of 2024, 14 sub-Saharan African countries have achieved full prohibition — the same number as in the 2019 count, indicating that the legislative cascade has slowed in the most recent five-year period. The number of countries with school-level-only prohibition is approximately 20. The number with no prohibition in any setting is approximately 15. — , The Rod and the Child, 4748

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why did the legislative cascade stall after 2019? Would be worth chasing for a reform-strategy angle.
• XREF: connects to: Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest child corporal punishment rate of any world region — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4716

Related

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• Full corporal punishment prohibition grew from 3 countries to about 65 in four decades (similarity 0.81)
• Child corporal punishment persists even among the wealthiest African households (similarity 0.81)
• Corporal punishment of children in South Africa is now legally assault without exception. (similarity 0.80)
• South African children’s constitutional right to be free from violence overrides parental corporal punishment. (similarity 0.79)
• SDG 16.2 creates reputational pressure on states to prohibit corporal punishment (similarity 0.79)
• Corporal punishment is the world’s most prevalent violence against any population group (similarity 0.79)
• The high prevalence of corporal punishment in Africa is historically contingent, not fixed destiny. (similarity 0.78)