Of newborns and nubiles: some critical challenges to children's rights in Africa in the era of HIV/AIDS
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2005
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Brill Academic Publishers
Abstract
The international legal framework within which HIV/Aids issues
should be addressed
Both the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and the regional
charter for the protection and promotion of children's rights, the African
Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990), are silent on the issue
of HIV/Aids directly. Nor is this particularly surprising - both were formulated
before the impact of the epidemic began to be felt in the developing world, and
before the implications of the disease for children could be fully understood.
The most substantive elaboration of principle concerning the issues relevant
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Children's rights, HIV/AIDS
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Sloth-Nielsen, J. (2005). Of newborns and nubiles: some critical challenges to children's rights in Africa in the era of HIV/AIDS. The International Journal of Children' s Rights, 13(1): 73-85