The African children’s charter @ 30: A distinction without a difference?

dc.contributor.authorMezmur, Benyam Dawit
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-29T07:58:32Z
dc.date.available2022-04-29T07:58:32Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractI 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 unicefen_US
dc.identifier.citationMezmur, B. D. (2020). The African Children’s Charter @ 30: A distinction without a difference?, The International Journal of Children's Rights, 28(4), 693-714. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-28040015en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-28040015
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/7335
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBrillen_US
dc.subjectChildren’s rights in Africaen_US
dc.subjectAdoptionen_US
dc.subjectSexual Offencesen_US
dc.subjectAfrican charteren_US
dc.titleThe African children’s charter @ 30: A distinction without a difference?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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