Children’s Rights Project

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The Children’s Rights Project works towards the recognition and protection of children’s rights in all spheres of society, with a particular juvenile justice; children in especially difficult circumstances; the legal position of children in family life or alternative care; structures of governance relevant to children's rights; constitutional law and legislative law reform.

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    The African children’s charter @ 30: A distinction without a difference?
    (Brill, 2020) Mezmur, Benyam Dawit
    I would like to start with three recent concerning developments on children’s rights in Africa that the media has highlighted. First, in Somalia the draft Sexual Offences Bill that allowed child marriage has ruffled feathers (UN News, 11 August 2020). In Cameroon, a video of soldiers executing two mothers and their children that went viral in 2018 almost came to a full circle when a military court conducted behind closed doors convicted four soldiers to a mere ten years’ imprisonment (Human Rights Watch, 23 September 2020). In Nigeria too, the sentencing of a 13-year old boy for 10 years, ‘in a Sharia court in Kano State in Northwest Nigeria after he was accused of using foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend’ (CNN, 16 September 2020) has drawn condemnation from organisations such as unicef
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    The convention on the rights of the child, migration, and Australia: Repositioning the convention from being a ‘wish list’ to a ‘to do list’ the 2018 Australian human rights institute annual lecture
    (Routledge, 2019) Mezmur, Benyam Dawit
    I was not terribly sure how many people I could reasonably expect for this lecture, especially since the former Prime Minister, the Hon. Tony Abbort, has said that Australians are sick of being lectured to by the United Nations ' (Cox 2015). Thank for your presence and for the opportunity. A few disclaimers are in order. first, I am a migrant. Second, this lecture does not intend to engage in detail with the laws, processes, structures, and so on of Australia but rather offers an outsider's view of the obligations in the Convention on the Rights of the Child(CRC or the Convention).