Global Progress

This interactive dashboard forms part of The HOPE Report’s ongoing research examining laws, policies, and societal frameworks connected to violence justified as “family discipline” within the home. The dashboard explores national approaches, legal developments, and emerging global patterns relating to corporal punishment, coercive control, adult partner discipline, and broader family violence prevention efforts.

By mapping legislative change, policy progression, and international trends, the project aims to support greater awareness, informed discussion, and prevention focused understanding surrounding violence within family structures and the long term impact these frameworks may have on women, children, families, and communities.

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Helplines by Country: Emergency, Family Violence and Sexual Assult

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This interactive dashboard highlights helplines available by country for emergencies, family violence, and sexual assault. If you are in need of help, please click on your country to find the right number to call.

Abolishment of Corporal Punishment of Children

Global Legislation by Setting

This dashboard shows each country’s legal status on the abolishment of corporal punishment of children. It highlights whether legislation exists across four key settings: Home, Out-of-Home Care, Schools, and Penal Institutions, and when it was enacted.

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Violence Framed as Family Discipline

This interactive dashboard forms part of The HOPE Report’s ongoing research examining violence framed as “family discipline” within legal, cultural, and societal systems across the world. The project explores how concepts of discipline, obedience, authority, and correction within family structures may intersect with family violence, coercive control, corporal punishment, and adult partner discipline.

By mapping legislation, policy developments, and international trends, the dashboard aims to support greater awareness, informed discussion, and prevention focused understanding surrounding violence justified under the framing of “discipline” within the home and its broader impact on women, children, families, and communities.

Family Violence legeslation

This dashboard forms part of an evolving global research project connected to The HOPE Report. The information presented has been compiled progressively by multiple intern cohorts across different semesters, disciplines, countries, and research streams. As a result, the scope, depth, legislative interpretation, terminology, and completeness of data may vary between jurisdictions depending on publicly available information, translation limitations, legal complexity, and the stage of research completed at the time of publication.

The dashboard should therefore be viewed as an educational and developing research tool designed to support awareness, discussion, pattern recognition, and ongoing international comparative analysis rather than as a final or exhaustive legal authority. Continued refinement, validation, expansion, and updating of the dataset remains an ongoing component of The HOPE Report project.

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How This Data Abolishment of Corporal Punishment of Children Is Compiled

Each country is classified as sovereign or territory, with recognition and UN membership status noted. We record whether legislation abolishing corporal punishment of children exists in four key settings: Home, Out-of-Home Care, Schools, and Penal Institutions. The year of enactment is shown where available, otherwise marked as “Not Legislated.” National-level laws are the primary focus, with sub-national legal systems to be mapped in future phases.

Country:[Name of Country]

Country Classification: For each country, we identified whether it was self-ruling (sovereign) or a territory (non-self-governing). In addition, we identified their recognition status. Countries with full recognition are those whose borders and jurisdiction are fully recognised by the global community. Partially recognized countries are those whose sovereignty is not universally recognized by all countries. Territories with full recognition are those where there is no dispute about which nation they are a part of. A partially recognised territory is one where there is contention about which country they are a part of. Finally, membership status refers to whether or not they have a seat and vote in the United Nations.

Legislation: Abolishment of Corporal Punishment of Children

Gatekeeper Body: [Name of authority or governing body, where known]

Year of Legislation

This section shows the year in which legislation was enacted or acknowledged for each setting. If no legislation has been passed for a specific setting, it is marked as Not Legislated.

Example:

Home: Not Legislated

Out-of-Home-Care : 2014

Schools: 2014

Penal Institutions: 2016

Stage: This number indicates how many of the four settings have been legislated against corporal punishment of children.

Comment :

National vs Sub-National Legal Structures

Depending on each country’s legal structure, some nations operate under a unified system of national legislation, while others have federated systems where laws vary across states or provinces. For the purposes of this report, the focus was placed on identifying legal prohibitions at the national level. In the next phase of this project, countries with decentralised legal systems, such as Australia, the United States, and India, will be examined in greater detail, with legislative mapping extended to the sub-national level to provide a more comprehensive analysis.

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