PETALING JAYA: The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) has renewed calls to abolish corporal punishment in schools following the death of 11-year-old schoolboy Mohamad Thaqif Amin Mohd Gadaffi, who was allegedly abused.
"Suhakam wishes to remind the Government that corporal punishment is a violation of a child's rights under the Convention of the Rights of the Child," Suhakam chairman Tan Sri Razali Ismail (pic) said in a statement Thursday.
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