Child rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: a call for a right-based global research agenda
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2013
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University of Stellenbosch
Abstract
Despite many achievements regarding child rights over the last 20 years, including improvements in many indicators such as the significant reduction in infant and child mortality; the more positive way of thinking about and listening to children; and increased response to those who abuse children, the rights of children are still insufficiently protected. Millions of children across the world suffer from the effects of extreme forms of poverty and their associated evils, such as malnourishment, stunted growth, nutritional-deficiency diseases and illiteracy. Recent figures from the International Labour Organisation (2010) show that, globally one in every six children work, 126 million children work in hazardous conditions, and the highest proportion of child labourers is in sub-Saharan Africa, where 26% of children (49 million) are involved in work. These figures provide only a glimpse of the challenges and obstacles that a child faces around the world
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Child rights, Child labour, Child mortality, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Dinbabo, M. (2013). Child rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: a call for a right-based global research agenda. Social Work: a professional journal for the social worker, 49 (3): 271-293