Do African Children Have Rights

Author : Stephen Nmeregini Achilihu
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781599428536

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Do African Children Have Rights? by Stephen Nmeregini Achilihu Pdf

The United Nations 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) constitutes a landmark in the development of international human rights law and reflects an historic turn in universal thinking about children and their rights. Many children in Africa today face the future with a deep sense of uncertainty and foreboding. Many have no hope of education and the issues of child trafficking, sexual exploitation and child labour reflect a profound crisis of the family. The current socio-economic situation has radically changed the world views and the life expectations of the African child. This book attempts to respond to some of the questions that could be asked: to what extent have the provisions of the CRC been implemented in the national legislations of African States? What effect have they had on children in Africa? What mechanisms exist to prevent and sanction rights abusers? Are children's rights in Africa reality, or simply rhetoric?

Author : Julia Sloth-Nielsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317167532

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Children's Rights in Africa by Julia Sloth-Nielsen Pdf

This collection is anchored in an African conception of children's rights and the law, and reflects contemporary discourses taking place in the region of the children's rights sphere. The majority of contributors are African and adopt an individual approach to their topic which reflects their first-hand experience. The book focuses on child rights issues which have particular resonance on the continent and the chapters span themes which are both broad and narrow, containing subject matter which is both theoretical and illuminated by practice. The book profiles recent developments and experiences in furthering children's legal rights in the African context, and distils from these future trends the specific role that the law can play in the African children's rights environment.

Author : Afua Twum-Danso Imoh,Nicola Ansell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135071783

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Children’s Lives in an Era of Children’s Rights by Afua Twum-Danso Imoh,Nicola Ansell Pdf

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which was adopted unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, marked a turning point in the perception of children in international law and policy. Although it was hoped that the Convention would have a significant and positive impact on the lives of all children, this has not happened in many parts of the world. This edited volume, based on empirical research and Non-Governmental Organisation project data, explores the progress of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and to a lesser extent, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, in nine African countries in the 25 years since it was adopted by the UN General Assembly. The book considers the implementation of the Convention both in terms of policy and practice, and its impact on the lived experiences of children in societies across the continent, focusing on specific themes such as HIV/AIDS, education and disability, child labour, witchcraft stigmatisation, street children, parent-child relationships and child participation. The book breaks new ground in blending legal and social perspectives of the experiences of children, and identifies concrete ways forward for the better implementation of the CRC treaty in the various political contexts that exist in Africa.

Author : Thoko Kaime
Publisher : PULP
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
ISBN : 9780981442044

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The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child by Thoko Kaime Pdf

The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: A socio-legal perspectiveby Thoko Kaime2009ISBN: 978-0-9814420-4-4Pages: xii 247Print version: AvailableElectronic version: Free PDF available.

Author : Ulrike Kahbila Mbuton
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783668959606

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The role of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child in the follow-up of its decisions on communications by Ulrike Kahbila Mbuton Pdf

Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: A, University of Pretoria (Centre for Human Rights), course: LLM Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa, language: English, abstract: The African Union (AU) has put in place a robust and comprehensive framework for the promotion and protection of Children’s rights in Africa. This was achieved in 1990 with the adoption of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (African Children’s Charter). The African human rights system is the only regional system that has a child rights instrument. The African Children’s Charter addresses issues that are specific to the African child. The African Children’s Charter entered into force on 29 November 1999. As at the time of conducting this study, the African Children’s Charter had been ratified by 48 African states, whiles even others are yet to ratify same. The African states that are yet to ratify the Charter are: Democratic Republic of Congo, Kingdom of Morocco, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Republic of Somalia, Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, Republic of South Sudan, and Republic of Tunisia.

Author : Remember Miamingi
Publisher : Pretoria University Law Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781920538873

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State party reporting and the realisation of children’s rights in Africa by Remember Miamingi Pdf

About the publication Human rights norms will largely remain hollow if they are not translated into the lived realities of people on the ground. Given the diversity and complexities of human rights norms, the arrays of institutions, mechanisms and resource required to give full effect to these norms, implementation of human rights norms is a continuous and progressive undertaking. Progress, to be meaningful, should have milestones and mechanisms for tracking it. The reporting mechanisms are human rights’ monitoring and evaluation plans and systems to track progressive implementation. This book provides an assessment of the reporting mechanisms of child rights treaty bodies. It highlights what is working or not working and why, making recommendations for further improvement of the reporting mechanism to better work for children in Africa. The findings and recommendations in the book are based on a study commissioned by the Centre for Human Rights, to assess the effects of reporting to United Nations and African Union child rights treaty bodies on the enjoyment of rights, protection and welfare of children in Africa. It covers 17 African countries, and provides a historical snapshot of the situation as at the end of 2017.

Author : Elvis Fokala,Nkatha Murungi ,Mai Aman
Publisher : Pretoria University Law Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The status of the implementation of the African Children’s Charter: A ten-country study by Elvis Fokala,Nkatha Murungi ,Mai Aman Pdf

In 2020, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) celebrates 30 years since its adoption. To date, 50 African States have ratified the ACRWC, and 28 have submitted the initial report, 12 have submitted both initial and periodic reports to the African Committee of Experts on the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) on the implementation of the ACRWC and have received recommendations from the ACERWC. To ascertain the extent of children’s rights protection in Africa, the Centre for Human Rights was commissioned to undertake a study on the implementation of the ACRWC in 10 countries, namely: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Namibia, Sudan and Tanzania. In-country researchers were engaged to collect data using desk-based research to obtain information consisting of literature, documents and online sources that was then thematically analysed.

Author : Alexander De Waal,Nicolas Argenti
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111765157

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Young Africa by Alexander De Waal,Nicolas Argenti Pdf

How did the Ghanaian state, after flirtation with structuralist theories and state intervention in the early 1960s, followed by persistent resistance to fiscal correction and a long economic slide in the 1970s and early 1980s, turn the economy around?

Author : Thoko Kaime
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9814420441

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The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child : a socio-legal perspective by Thoko Kaime Pdf

Author : Gerd Spittler,M. F. C. Bourdillon
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783643902054

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African Children at Work by Gerd Spittler,M. F. C. Bourdillon Pdf

Most children in Africa start working from a very early age, helping the family or earning wages. Should this work be abolished, tolerated, or encouraged? Such questions are the subject of much debate. International and national organizations, employers, parents, and children often have diverse opinions and put pressure in different directions. The contributions in this book offer intensive fieldwork and careful analysis of children's activities, considering childhood and family, work and play, work in rural and urban contexts, paths to learning, work and school, and children's rights. (Series: Reports on African Studies / Beitrage zur Afrikaforschung - Vol. 52)

Author : Virginia Paola Lalli
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781546268390

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The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child by Virginia Paola Lalli Pdf

The 1989 International Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the 1990 African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) are two major international treaties protecting minors. Each treaty gives rise to new perspectives on children’s rights, and enshrine the principles of the best interests of the child and of children’s ownership of rights. The ACRWC incorporates the CRC’s rights while taking into consideration the specificity of the African context, striving to balance the rule of law with local customs. This book seeks to illustrate the rights and duties enshrined in the ACRWC, as well as the responsibilities established therein regarding the protection of minors. The role of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) will also be examined, in particular its activity of monitoring the States Parties’ implementation of the ACRWC and its institutional powers in exercising its powers. Finally, the book will analyse the progress made by the States Parties to the treaties. The focus will be both on the formal aspect of harmonizing national legal systems and the international rights, and on the substantive “steps required” of States Parties to reach the “opinion of law or necessity” that the ACRWC’s provisions should be perceived, first and foremost, as necessary and socially useful, as well as legally binding.

Author : Julia Sloth-Nielsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 075467911X

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The African Children's Charter by Julia Sloth-Nielsen Pdf

Ten years after the coming into force of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, this volume presents an analysis of its progress so far. Looking both backward and forward it provides a reflection on successes and achievements of the past, as well as setting an agenda for the future.

Author : Yaw Ofosu-Kus
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782869787377

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Childrens Agency and Development in African Societies by Yaw Ofosu-Kus Pdf

This book focuses on African childhood and youth within the context of development and socialization where children are expected to be moulded in the image of adults. In many African societies children are generally held as passive bearers of the demands of adults, regardless of the fact that they are often exposed to a multitude of challenges that originate from the capriciousness of those adults. However, buoyed by international conventions and national legislations that offer them greater protection, and the ubiquitous internet that exposes them to childhood and youth experiences elsewhere, many of them are increasingly becoming assertive in homes, schools, and communities as well as re-invigorating their survival and self-preservation instincts. It is in this regard that this book, through the various chapters, engages with their competencies, skills and creativity to respond to experiential challenges as independent migrants or ones under coercion working in city streets and markets or cocoa farms or juggling work and schooling in pursuit of some education. Confronted with their parents and siblings health predicaments and the inadequacies of state and familial care, or urgent negotiation of their sexualities, they demonstrate incredible resilience. Similarly, their perceptiveness is demonstrated in a unique appreciation of politics and its actors and a capacity to assume responsibilities beyond their chronological age. Thus while highlighting some of the challenges confronting African children, the book provides gripping evidence of how they resiliently negotiate those challenges.

Author : Michael Gose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Children
ISBN : 0620294205

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The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child by Michael Gose Pdf

Author : Welshman Ncube
Publisher : Dartmouth Publishing Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023112282

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Law, Culture, Tradition, and Children's Rights in Eastern and Southern Africa by Welshman Ncube Pdf

The fact that the Convention on the Rights of The Child is the most widely ratified international treaty on human rights suggests not only a large degree of international normative consensus on the content of children's rights, but also a high level of resolve and commitment among states to ensure that each child receives appropriate nurturing and protection within the framework of the minimum standards set by the Convention.