The Volta Region office of the Department of Children under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), in collaboration with Plan International, Ghana, have celebrated this year's African Union Day of the African Child with a call to end harmful practices affecting children. In an address, Mr Israel…
MONROVIA – Liberia will join the rest of the world in celebrating the Day of the African Child on June 16, 2022.The celebration of the Day of the African Child (DAC), intended to give children the voice to speak on issues that affect them, arises fro
In 1991, the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the then Organisation of African Unity (OAU) instituted the Day of the African Child (DAC), in memory of the 16 June 1976 student uprising in Soweto, South Africa.
Heal Zimbabwe joins the nation and the rest of Africa in commemorating the Day of the African Child. The day is commemorated every year on the 16th of June.
African governments should not tolerate or legally permit child marriage, denial of education, or other human rights abuses against girls, Human Rights Watch said today on the African Union’s Day of the African Child.