Assessing the African Charter on the rights and welfare of the child (ACRWC) as a blueprint towards the attainment of children’s rights in Africa

The paper seeks to analyse the provisions of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC). The paper seeks to make this analysis based on the harmonisation and monism theories of the relationship between international law and municipal law which states that international piece...

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Main Authors: Sillah, Ramphal M., Chibanda, Tawanda W.
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Language:English
Published: IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1197
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description The paper seeks to analyse the provisions of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC). The paper seeks to make this analysis based on the harmonisation and monism theories of the relationship between international law and municipal law which states that international pieces of law are essentially created to be domesticated within the municipal law of a state and vice versa. To this end, the ACRWC essentially acts as a blueprint for the facilitation of domestic measures and municipal law aimed at upholding children’s rights in Africa. The ACRWC should then be an immaculate blueprint that can be followed by states so as to churn out domestic measures that are in the best interests of the child. The paper however seeks to assess whether there are vague, uncouth and contradictory articles within the provisions of the charter that might be interpreted by the states to the detriment of the rights of the African child.
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spelling ir-11408-11972022-06-27T13:49:06Z Assessing the African Charter on the rights and welfare of the child (ACRWC) as a blueprint towards the attainment of children’s rights in Africa Sillah, Ramphal M. Chibanda, Tawanda W. Children’s rights, African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, Blueprint, municipal law, international law The paper seeks to analyse the provisions of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC). The paper seeks to make this analysis based on the harmonisation and monism theories of the relationship between international law and municipal law which states that international pieces of law are essentially created to be domesticated within the municipal law of a state and vice versa. To this end, the ACRWC essentially acts as a blueprint for the facilitation of domestic measures and municipal law aimed at upholding children’s rights in Africa. The ACRWC should then be an immaculate blueprint that can be followed by states so as to churn out domestic measures that are in the best interests of the child. The paper however seeks to assess whether there are vague, uncouth and contradictory articles within the provisions of the charter that might be interpreted by the states to the detriment of the rights of the African child. 2016-05-04T11:44:17Z 2016-05-04T11:44:17Z 2013 Article 2279-0837 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1197 en IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science;Vol. 11, No. 2; p. 50-55 open IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science
spellingShingle Children’s rights, African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child,
Blueprint, municipal law, international law
Sillah, Ramphal M.
Chibanda, Tawanda W.
Assessing the African Charter on the rights and welfare of the child (ACRWC) as a blueprint towards the attainment of children’s rights in Africa
title Assessing the African Charter on the rights and welfare of the child (ACRWC) as a blueprint towards the attainment of children’s rights in Africa
title_full Assessing the African Charter on the rights and welfare of the child (ACRWC) as a blueprint towards the attainment of children’s rights in Africa
title_fullStr Assessing the African Charter on the rights and welfare of the child (ACRWC) as a blueprint towards the attainment of children’s rights in Africa
title_full_unstemmed Assessing the African Charter on the rights and welfare of the child (ACRWC) as a blueprint towards the attainment of children’s rights in Africa
title_short Assessing the African Charter on the rights and welfare of the child (ACRWC) as a blueprint towards the attainment of children’s rights in Africa
title_sort assessing the african charter on the rights and welfare of the child (acrwc) as a blueprint towards the attainment of children’s rights in africa
topic Children’s rights, African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child,
Blueprint, municipal law, international law
url http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1197
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