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This study examined the reasons for the pervasiveness of the practice of child abandonment, using the “Skolombo Boys and Lakasara Girls’’ in Calabar, the state capital of Cross River State, Nigeria, as the analytical context. Globally, there are approximately 150 million children roaming the street without care or shelter (United Nation Educational Scientific and Cultural Organizations, 2017). These children are chased from their respective home by violence, drug and alcohol use and abuse, death of either or both parents, family dysfunction, war, natural disaster, insurgency or simply socio-…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Committee's recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Committee's recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as part of its examination of Niger's initial reports, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review.
The Census on Street Children in the Greater Accra Region was carried out by the Department of Social Welfare (DSW)of the Government of Ghana and Ricerca e Cooperazione (RC), an ltalian NGO, in collaboration with two local NGOs: Catholic Action for Street Children (CAS) and Street Girls Aid (S.A|D). The Census was carried out within the project 'lmprovement of the Living Standards of Street Children and Street Mothers in Greater Accra', executed between October 2007 and April 2011, co-funded by the ltalian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and implemented by DSW and RC.
The main objective of the…
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In The Gambia like all nations, drug abuse is seen as a social and health problem that has many serious implications for the physical, social, psychological and intellectual development of the victims more especially, the children. Therefore, it continues to be a concern to families, community leaders, educators, social workers, health care professionals, academics, government and its development partners. Though there some studies on drug abuse, there is none on children and drug abuse focusing on the street children the most vulnerable category. Street children are hypothesized…
Mainstream discussions on out-of-school boys in northern Nigeria often paint pictures of dirty and violent street-child-beggars that contributed to place Nigeria atop of nations that have the largest number of out-of-school children. This chapter explores how the failing system of traditional almajiri education, challenges associated with government efforts to integrate almajiri education into the formal school system, social exclusion and hostility contribute to increase the boys’ vulnerability to radicalisation and recruitment by Boko Haram. It recommends an equitable and non-discriminatory…
Street children in Nigeria face risks of being recruited by terrorist organizations. This program held by American University of Nigeria hopes to reduce children’s risks of recruitment.
In this article, William W. Hansen argues that the street children who populate the cities of Northern Nigeria have no means of support other than begging for their daily food, petty crime or providing casual labor. For the most part illiterate, they have few educational skills that would allow them to function in a modern economy. This article argues that the desolate economic conditions experienced by these young people make them prime targets for recruitment into religious groups such as Boko Haram, or into one or another of the political/criminal gangs – generically called the ‘Yan Daba’–…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Comittee's recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.