Child Hope Center Foundation

13/07/2022

Every child has basic fundamental rights. These include the right to:

Life, survival and development

Protection from violence, abuse or neglect

An education that enables children to fulfil their potential

Be raised by, or have a relationship with, their parents

Express their opinions and be listened to.

These basic rights were spelled out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). UNCRC is a legally-binding international agreement setting out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of every child, regardless of their race, religion or abilities.

11/07/2022

Child Rights Timeline

One will think that child rights should be as old as civilization itself. Yes it is, but it has been at the discretion of the parents and the adults around the children. Here you will find a detailed timeline of the development of children's rights.

These are laws that set the minimum acceptable standards when it comes to child's rights worldwide.

https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-co...ild-rights

02/07/2022

Children's Rights

Children and young people have the same general human rights as adults and also specific rights that recognize their special needs. Children are neither the property of their parents nor are they helpless objects of charity.

They are human beings and are the subject of their own rights.

https://childrightsconnect.org/working...lioCats=78

12/06/2022

Working Group on Children and Violence

Every day, boys and girls around the world endure some form of violence. It happens in every country, and it doesn’t discriminate between culture, class, income or education.

In many cases, violence against children is allowed by national laws or justified for disciplinary reasons or cultural tradition.

This has devastating consequences for children’s health and development.

https://childrightsconnect.org/working...lioCats=78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hse1wXl-jYk&t=2s

01/06/2022

“Nigeria’s government practices federalism, and since the 2003 Child Rights Act was promulgated into law at the federal level, it has been appropriate for state assemblies to adopt the same.

However, as of 31 December 2020, only the federal capital territory of Abuja and 27 states out of Nigeria’s 36 have appropriated the legal framework for seemingly consolidated laws for child welfare, which is Children’s Survival, Development, Protection and Participation in the decision-making process (abbreviated as CSDPP). The 9 out of 12 Sharia-implementing states that have yet to domesticate or pass the bill into law are Sokoto, Bauchi, Kano, Kebbi, Borno, Niger, Gombe, Yobe, and Zamfara, where an Islamic-order worldview is dominant [48,60,61]. Unfortunately, some of these states presently produce the highest number of out-of-school children in Nigeria. In other words, out-of-school children can be found in all parts of Nigeria.

This is the scenario that international organization models of childcare met on ground and are making efforts to remedy.” Options for Africa’s Child Welfare Systems from Nigeria’s Unsustainable Multicultural Models

25/05/2022

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/3/1118/pdf

The attached article attempts to describe and discuss the sustainability of African child welfare systems by focusing on the diversity that constitutes modern Nigeria and its childcare practices.

The attempt is geared to reflect the characteristics of childcare mal-treatments and contradictions in Africa and thereby highlights the numerous challenges surrounding the sustainability of the continent’s child welfare systems.

The discussion highlights the following identifiable challenges: ethnocultural or, more specifically, eth-nonreligious diversity; infiltration of Nigeria by non-indigenous worldviews (or aspects of foreign civilizations); colonial legacies; vacillating post-colonial social policies; conceptual ambiguities in foreign social welfare terminologies; and persistent professional rivalries.

At CHCF our Child welfare social workers and donors are working tirelessly to create a sustainable system to protect children

17/09/2017

Child Right Act, based on Nigerian version, as accepted by the National Assembly and passed into Nigerian Law in July 2003 by Olusegun Obasanjo, implies the following:

Ø To protect children from battering, torture, maltreatment etc.
Ø To ensure that every child undergoes a free, compulsory and universal education which is to be provided by the government
Ø To ensure that every child is entitled to rest, leisure, enjoyment, good medical care, food, shelter, good drinking water and sanitized environment.
Ø To protect children against child’s betrothal/child marriage, tattoo marks, female ge***al mutilation, exposure of children to drugs; criminal activities, prostitution/sexual abuse etc.

CHILD RIGHT ACT OR CHILD ABUSE! Sometime last year 2016, a primary school teacher friend of mine narrated an incident that happened in th...