African values and the rights of the child: Challenges and prospects

Buch | Softcover

104 Seiten

2017
Ãditions universitaires europÃ©ennes (Verlag)
978-3-639-62203-4 (ISBN)

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The realization of a culture of human rights and especially the rights of children in Africa has not received a lot of international attention and concerns. In most cases, concern for such rights only come to the fore during periods of famine and conflicts in the continent. In other periods there seem to be little efforts by governments in Africa to promote and protect the facts of the child. This lack of concern especially at the regional level has certain underlying issues that need to be explained. In this book, we acknowledge the fact that since the CRC of 1989, children are now holders of rights just like adults but the enjoyment of these rights is problematic for children especially in African communities. The communal nature of the African social structure has had its own toil on the rights of the child in most rural African villages to date. In such structures an individual adult or child is part and parcel of the community. The welfare of the community supersedes the rights of the individual members of the community. This is the structure in which the African child, in addition to the disadvantage of vulnerable age, finds himself/herself.

Wafula Muyila holds a PhD in philosophy and teaches at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He has done research in Ethics, culture and Human Rights and was a guest researcher at the Danish Institute of Human Rights where he did his research on African values and children's rights.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.04.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	171 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Familienrecht
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Recht / Sonstiges
Schlagworte	Africa • African values • Familienrecht (FamR); Ratgeber • Human Rights • the rights of the child
ISBN-10	3-639-62203-0 / 3639622030
ISBN-13	978-3-639-62203-4 / 9783639622034
Zustand	Neuware