State Party Reporting And The Realisation Of Children S Rights In Africa

Author : Remember Miamingi
Publisher : Pretoria University Law Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Afua Twum-Danso Imoh,Nicola Ansell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Julia Sloth-Nielsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Stephen Nmeregini Achilihu
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Alexander De Waal,Nicolas Argenti
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Ulrike Kahbila Mbuton
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : 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 : Elvis Fokala,Nkatha Murungi ,Mai Aman
Publisher : Pretoria University Law Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Remember Miamingi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 057889646X

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African Childhood by Remember Miamingi Pdf

Different African communities share some commonalities in their understanding of childhood. There are similarities between how communities in Africa see and treat children and the image of childhood in the child rights treaties. However, there are significant differences. There is a duty of care to ensure that the cultural norms and values that inform the conception of childhood in Africa are accommodated reasonably if children's rights treaties in Africa are to be meaningfully implemented.In this book, I highlight how this can be done and the cost of being culturally insensitive when advocating for children's rights in Africa. Such a failure will, at the least, increases the economic and social costs of implementing children's rights in many African communities. Second, implementing children's rights norms that some communities in Africa consider as alien without adopting those norms to the African context will continue to increase local communities' resistance to children's rights. Such an approach will be seen as replacing local cultural values with alien cultural norms, which could cause a multiple-lived experience for children, weakened family structures and support, and possibly compromised cultural identities of children. To minimise the negative consequences when communities perceive children's rights as an alien imposition, the book recommends applying the norms in these two children's rights treaties in a context-and child-specific manner. It is further argued that a 'universal pluralistic' theoretical framework will facilitate reasonable deference to local contexts that further the cause of children's rights and wellbeing. It is argued that such an approach will ensure mutual accommodation between the norms provided for in the children's rights treaties and the cultural values of communities in Africa.

Author : Rachel Hodgkin,Peter Newell
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9280641832

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Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child by Rachel Hodgkin,Peter Newell Pdf

"The Handbook aims to be a practical tool for implementation, explaining and illustrating the implications of each article of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and of the two Optional Protocols adopted in 2000 as well as their interconnections."--P. xvii.

Author : UNICEF.
Publisher : UNICEF
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789280644425

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State of the World's Children by UNICEF. Pdf

On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18. To celebrate this landmark, the United Nations Children's Fund is dedicating a special edition of its flagship report The State of the World's Children to examining the Convention's evolution, progress achieved on child rights, challenges remaining, and actions to be taken to ensure that its promise becomes a reality for all children.

Author : Purna Sen,Christina Hajdu,Jade Cochran
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 1849290113

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Child Rights in the Commonwealth by Purna Sen,Christina Hajdu,Jade Cochran Pdf

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) acknowledged the modern understanding of childhood. It formulated what children can expect as a set of rights as distinct from welfare or kindness from adults. This book examines the importance of child rights, and provides an overview of the key themes of the CRC.

Author : United Nations. Committee on the Rights of the Child
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Convention on the Rights of the Child
ISBN : UIUC:30112098398396

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Consideration of the Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 44 of the Convention by United Nations. Committee on the Rights of the Child Pdf

Author : Ziba Vaghri,Jean Zermatten,Gerison Lansdown,Roberta Ruggiero
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030846473

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Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child by Ziba Vaghri,Jean Zermatten,Gerison Lansdown,Roberta Ruggiero Pdf

This open access book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of children, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It provides the reader with a unique and clear overview of the scope and core content of the articles, together with an analysis of the latest jurisprudence of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. For each article of the UNCRC, the authors explore the nature and scope of corresponding State obligations, and identify the main features that need to be taken into consideration when assessing a State’s progressive implementation of the UNCRC. This analysis considers which aspects of a given right are most important to track, in order to monitor States' implementation of any given right, and whether there is any resultant change in the lives of children. This approach transforms the narrative of legal international standards concerning a given right into a set of characteristics that ensure no aspect of said right is overlooked. The book develops a clear and comprehensive understanding of the UNCRC that can be used as an introduction to the rights and principles it contains, and to identify directions for future policy and strategy development in compliance with the UNCRC. As such, it offers an invaluable reference guide for researchers and students in the field of childhood and children’s rights studies, as well as a wide range of professionals and organisations concerned with the subject.

Author : Garton Kamchedzera
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004148628

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A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 5: The Child’s Right to Appropriate Direction and Guidance by Garton Kamchedzera Pdf

This volume constitutes a commentary on Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is part of the series, A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which provides an article by article analysis of all substantive, organizational and procedural provisions of the CRC and its two Optional Protocols. For every article, a comparison with related human rights provisions is made, followed by an in-depth exploration of the nature and scope of State obligations deriving from that article. The series constitutes an essential tool for actors in the field of children’s rights, including academics, students, judges, grassroots workers, governmental, non- governmental and international officers. The series is sponsored by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office.