ADOPTING EVIDENCE-BASED CHILD RIGHTS AWARENESS STRATEGIES: MOVING FROM MIRAGE TO REALITY IN CHILD RIGHTS IMPLEMENTATION IN NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorADEDIGBA, Olabisi
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-19T10:35:49Z
dc.date.available2023-05-19T10:35:49Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractNigeria has ratified and domesticated the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, but the protection of children's rights still remains poor as millions of children suffer from various forms of abuse day in day out. One of the key issues linked to child rights abuse in Nigeria is lack of awareness of children's rights. Before child rights can be embraced, they must first be publicised. Information on child rights has not been sufficiently disseminated to children and parents in Nigeria, according to the literature. Among the numerous steps that should be taken to advance children's rights, raising awareness is clearly the most important. As a result, this paper presents several strategies that have been empirically proven to be helpful in raising awareness among various stakeholders in other countries. It begins by identifying children as vulnerable individuals with rights, outlines several laws safeguarding them, with a focus on the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), 1989 and Child Rights Acts, 2003. Several incidences of child rights abuse in Nigeria are also reported. Likewise, the paper emphasizes the importance of raising awareness in the realization of children's rights and describes various strategies used in many nations of the world to raise awareness of child rights protection, with a focus on creative strategies. It concludes by emphasizing that failing to protect children's rights has a number of long-term consequences, and that one of the most effective ways to move from just passing laws to actual implementation is to use effective awareness strategies such as creative arts to promote child rights among the children, stakeholders and the general publicen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/10442
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherLASU 7TH International Conference Proceedings, Faculty of Education, Lagos State University (LASU)en_US
dc.titleADOPTING EVIDENCE-BASED CHILD RIGHTS AWARENESS STRATEGIES: MOVING FROM MIRAGE TO REALITY IN CHILD RIGHTS IMPLEMENTATION IN NIGERIAen_US
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