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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Legislators turned into turkeycocks |
Author: | Okupa, Effa |
Year: | 1993 |
Periodical: | Annual conference - African Society of International and Comparative Law |
Volume: | 5 |
Pages: | 352-363 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | African agreements children's rights African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child |
Abstract: | African States were underrepresented at the meetings of the working group on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which came into force in 1990. Thus, in 1988, after the first UN Draft Convention on the Rights of the Child was published, the African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN) invited African State parties and others to review the Draft Convention with special reference to the requirements of the African child. It was agreed that the UN Draft Convention should be supplemented by an African legal instrument which would take the special concerns of Africa into account. The prescription of the Conference subsequently held at Dakar, which became known as the 'Declaration of Dakar' eventually led to the adoption by the OAU of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, modelled on the first draft of the UN Convention. Examining the preambular paragraphs and several articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the author contends that the African Charter does not take customary African law and traditions concerning child-raising and family life sufficiently into account. Ref. |