By Francis Sardauna
Worried by the endemic cases of rape and other gender-based violence afflicting children and women in the country, female change agents of Save the Children Internation (SCI), a non-governmental organisation, have vowed to end the scenario which they say robs children of the privilege to enjoy their rights and freedoms as enshrined in the nation’s constitution.
The female change agents, who made the pledge during a three-day refresher training held at Al-Bhustan Hotel, Katsina, said they would work with relevant stakeholders in their states to come up with workable strategies to eliminate violence against children and women in the country.
By Francis Sardauna
A non-governmental organisation, Save the Children International (SCI), in collaboration with the Katsina State House of Assembly Ad hoc Committee on Child Protection Law, has commenced the summarisation and translation of the law into local languages for easy comprehension and acceptability.
Speaking during the six-day exercise in Kano, the House Committee Chairman on Child Protection Law, Hon. Musa Nuhu Gafia, said the translation of the law into Hausa and Fulfulde languages would help in quality sensitisation of the populace, on the importance of protecting the rights of the child in the state.
He said: “We are summarising and translating the law into Hausa and Fulfulde so that the people which the law is meant for can read and understand its content. We are translating it into Hausa for a time being and later it can be translated into Fulfulde”.
Francis Sardauna chronicles the efforts made by Save the Children International that led to the signing of Child Protection bill into law in Katsina State after 17 years of struggles and its sustained clamour for implementation
In 1989, world leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is an international agreement on childhood across the globe.
The Convention says childhood is separate from adulthood, and lasts until 18. It is a special, protected time, in which children must be allowed to grow, learn, develop and flourish with dignity in line with relevant laws that protects them.
By Francis Sardauna
The non-governmental organisation, Save the Children International (SCI), has admonished the Katsina State Government and other critical stakeholders to put machinery in motion to ensure the speedy implementation of the recent passed Child Protection Law in the state.
The state Community Engagement and Advocacy Coordinator of SCI, Mrs Murjanatu Kabir, who made the admonition during a five-day training of media working group on Better Life for Girls held in Kano, said the implementation of the law would tackle the pervading cases of rape and child marriage bedevilling children in the state.
The state Police Command had earlier said it recorded 287 cases of rape and 22 sodomy cases in 2020, while 236 cases are undergoing investigation and most of the victims are between the age of three and 14.