Introduction Protecting children and realizing their rights are major challenges for African states. In addition to recurring issues like childhood marriage and excision, there is an increasing problem with child disappearances in countries like Benin. How is the problem manifested and what are its causes? Missing children in Benin: The psychosis and causes of […]
Right now in Saudi Arabia, at least 4 people are awaiting execution by beheading or crucifixion for offences committed when they were children. Saudi Arabia must comply with adequate standards of juvenile justice. A State Party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child Although the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a State […]
The Committee on the Rights of the Child (here now “Committee”) monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its State parties. Since 2014, children can complain about their country directly to the Committee, if certain criteria are met. Questions children (everyone under the age of 18 years) shall […]
The global community is demanding an end to an unacceptable practice in Cameroon. It is calling for the eradication of the worst forms of child exploitation, including work in slavery-like conditions, dangerous and exhausting work, and other extreme forms of exploitation. In its campaign against child labour, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has proposed, to […]
‘Closed Education Centres’ (CEF) are defined, in Article 33 of 2 February 1945’s ruling on young offenders, as centres where “minors are subject to measures of surveillance and control ensuring an educational and pedagogic programme which is individually adapted and reinforced”. The United Nations Committee for the Rights of the Child sees these establishments, thought […]
Children have the right to have their births registered and it falls to parents to respect this right, which is enshrined in article 51 of Senegal’s Family Code. Section 2 of the Code, which dates from 1972, states: “Every birth must be declared to the appropriate authority within one month”. The paradox of this legislation is […]
In a country where close to 10 million people are illiterate and 1,137,546 children, teenagers and young people have not received a primary or secondary education (UNESCO), education poses a major challenge. In Morocco, there has been some progress in recent years thanks to new reforms in the education system. This progress remains insufficient however, […]
China is experiencing a massive labour migration from rural areas to cities. In 2009, 11% of the population, around 145 million people, moved from the countryside to large cities to find employment (Hu, 2012). But those migrating for work are not always without family ties; many of them are also parents who have had to […]
The first quarter of 2017 was marked by a food crisis affecting approximately fifteen countries, of which four of these regions are suffering from severe famine. The United Nations has sounded the alarm. What is famine? We all have a more or less concrete idea of what it is, but it is not as obvious […]
In 2015, the EU received 1,321,600 asylum applicants and almost 30% of these applicants were children (European Union Committee, 2016). These refugees have to face many problems; not only do they have to abandon their homes and their families, but they also have to assimilate into a completely new country where the youngest of them […]
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