Child Rights in ECOWAS : a continuation of the United Nations and African Union’s positions on child rights?

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-65
Author(s):  
Lere Amusan
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
The United Nations

Perception on Child Rights Protection and Media Performance Among Kuje Internally Displaced Persons' Camp, Abuja, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 277-294
Author(s):  
Felix Chidozie Chidozie ◽  
Augustine Ejiroghene Oghuvbu
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Displaced Children ◽  
The Media ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations

This essay examines media and child rights protection in Nigeria, using Kuje IDPs Camp in Abuja, FCT as a case study. It argues that the media has important and indispensable roles to play in enabling the promotion of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Nigeria's Child Rights Act, 2003. The study adopted the qualitative method through interviews and focus group discussions conducted at the Kuje IDPs Camp. Findings suggest that the Nigerian government is not committed to implementing the prescription of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Child Rights Act, thus further jeopardizing the already fractured rights of the of children in IDPs camps in Nigeria. Similarly, the media is not paying attention to the plight of the displaced children. The prescriptions advanced in this study as well as the conclusions reached are relevant for policy makers at the national, regional, and international levels responsible for the rights of the children, especially the Nigerian child.

Problematising the Dominant Child Rights Discourses: Why We Need a Nuanced Approach to Combat Child Labour

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 476-486
Author(s):  
Abdul-Rahim Mohammed ◽  
Adams Sulemana Achanso
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Global Awareness ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations

Three decades have now passed since the promulgation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1989. Despite the almost universal ratification of the CRC, as well as the heightened global awareness of the prevalence of child labour, the phenomenon persists. Following the ratification of the CRC, the rights-based approach to combating child labour became the dominant theoretical perspective. By problematising the dominant child-rights framework, this paper contributes to the discourse on child labour by arguing for a more nuanced approach to addressing the phenomenon. The paper achieves this objective by underscoring the importance of understanding and engaging with the reasons why children work, the socio-economic contexts within which they work, and why policies designed to address child labour should address the structural barriers that directly and indirectly promote child labour.

scholarly journals Bringing Child Buddhist Monks into the Alternative Care Conversation: Reflections on an Under-considered Group of Children

2021 ◽  
pp. 234930032110121
Author(s):  
Deborah W. Parkes
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Young Children ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Care Homes ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Alternative Care ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The United Nations

Tens of thousands of children in India, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and other Asian countries are living as child Buddhist monks. Many are in temples and monasteries far from home and do not see their parents for months, even years. Some are as young as 6 years of age. The aim of this article is to engage scholars, practitioners, child rights advocates, and others in a conversation around the rights and vulnerabilities of child Buddhist monks and children susceptible to being entrusted to monasteries to live as child monks. This group of children receives relatively little attention in alternative care conversations despite many parallels and overlaps with children in orphanages and care homes. This article identifies risks and vulnerabilities that child monks can face, including sexual abuse. It reflects on how aspects of entrusting young children to live as child monks do not necessarily fit with principles articulated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child ( UNGA, 1989 ) and the United Nations Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children ( UNGA, 2009 ).

scholarly journals A Child Rights Perspective on Intergenerational Trauma

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-91
Author(s):  
Brent Bezo
Keyword(s):  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Intergenerational Trauma ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Trauma Research ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Research Initiatives

This paper argues that intergenerational trauma undermines the rights of the child, as per articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. To meet this objective, this paper draws on the available evidence suggesting that intergenerational trauma deprives children of their rights to environments free of maltreatment-abuse (Articles 19), and poverty (Article 27), in addition to undermining their rights to their own culture (Article 30). This paper then draws on available intergenerational trauma research, suggesting that child maltreatment-abuse, poverty, and loss of culture prevent the child from obtaining the best possible health, with the latter also a right outlined in Article 24. Because this paper argues that the study of intergenerational trauma owes its existence to political movements, recommendations are made for researcher engagement in multisectorial child-centric research initiatives, in order to help realize children’s rights that are undermined by intergenerational trauma and improve children’s health.

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