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This is a corporal punishment country report for Guinea-Bissau. While prohibition of corporal punishment is still to be achieved in the home and day care, the Child Protection Code 2021 of Guinea-Bissau prohibits corporal punishment in alternative care settings, schools and in penal institutions.
The Code also prohibits physical and psychological violence, including humiliation and verbal aggression. However, it does not explicitly prohibit corporal punishment of children, however light, in the home.
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ACERWC released a study on the structures and functions of NHRIs on child protection to assess how child rights issues are incorporated in their mandates. The study identifies challenges and proposes areas to strengthen collaboration. Specifically, the study:
- Examines the structures of NHRIs in Africa and how they have institutionalised children’s rights.
- Assesses the functions of African NHRIs in implementing children’s rights.
- Assesses budgetary allocations for NHRIs in relation to the protection, promotion and implementation of children’s rights.…
This resolution on orphanage trafficking was adopted by consensus at the 147th IPU Assembly and endorsed by 180 parliaments.
This paper assesses the legal regime governing inter-country adoption under the Ethiopian family laws by making a brief comparative study with correspondent provisions of the Chinese family law.
The Children Act, 2022, is an act of Parliament to give effect to Article 53 of the Constitution; to make provision for children rights, parental responsibility, alternative care of children including guardianship, foster care placement and adoption; to make provision for care and protection of children and children in conflict with the law; to make provision for, and regulate the administration of children services; to establish the National Council for Children’s Services and for connected purposes.
The Children Act, Chapter 141 is a Kenyan law that addresses provision for parental responsibility, fostering, adoption, custody, maintenance, guardianship, care and protection of children; provision for the administration of children’s institutions; and giving effect to the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and for connected purposes. The law's date of commencement was 1 March 2002.
This Law is relating to the rights and the protection of the child in Rwanda. It includes articles on the rights of children to know and live with their family, on the best interests of the child, on a child's right to a family, and on the duties of parents and caregivers to children. It also covers a child's placement into foster care, including reasons for placement and the right of the child to express her or his opinion in such placement decisions, among other aspects of foster and alternative care of children.
This document outlines the regulations for charitable children's institutions (CCIs) in Kenya. The regulations stipulate that "Institutions shall be run in a way consistent with the guiding and overriding rights contained in the Convention on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, to ensure maximum survival and development of children, non-discrimination of children, respecting of children’s right to air opinions and securing of the best interest of children."
AN ACT to reform and consolidate the law relating to children, to provide for the rights of the child, maintenance and adoption, regulate child labour and apprenticeship, for ancillary matters concerning children generally and to provide for related matters.
Among the rights outlined in this Act is the right of children to grow up with parents.
"No person shall deny a child the right to live with his parents and family and grow up in a caring and peaceful environment unless it is proved in court that living with his parents would – (a) lead to significant harm to the child; or (b)…
The Child Rights Act of 2007 provides for the promotion of the rights of the child compatible with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20th November, 1989, and its Optional Protocol of 8th September, 2000, and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, and for other related matters. The Act includes a section on the right of children to grow up with parents, among others.