An Evaluation Of The Awareness And Behaviour Of Journalists In Campaign For Child Rights Act In Nigeria

An Evaluation Of The Awareness And Behaviour Of Journalists In Campaign For Child Rights Act In Nigeria

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the Study

Owolabi, 2012) defines a child as a person under the age of 18 under the Child’s Rights Act and the African Children’s Charter. The Child’s Right Act of 2003 is a Nigerian law that protects the rights of all children. The Child’s Right Act has been legislated as a state legislation in 24 of Nigeria’s 36 countries therefore far. As a result, twelve( 12) countries in Nigeria have yet to incorporate the Child’s Right Act into their legislation, out of the 36 countries in the country.

Nigeria passed the Child Rights Act in 2003 to domesticate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Children’s Rights Act of 2003 extends to children the mortal rights guaranteed by Nigeria’s 1999 constitution( Ogunniyi, 2018). The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the world’s most extensively conceded norm on children’s rights, has a comprehensive list of rights for children and youthful people under the age of 18. When Ireland ratified the Convention in 1992, it pledged to promote children’s rights. Children’s rights relate to their experimental and age-applicable conditions, which vary as they get aged.

Children’s Rights include

Health, education, family life, play and entertainment, a sufficient standard of living, and protection from abuse and injury are all rights that children have and it’s the right of every citizen and country to insure that every child enjoy these rights( Owolabi, 2012). The Child’s Rights Act has yet to be domesticated in 11 countries in northern Nigeria. There are no records of these state houses agitating or mooting the Act. Other laws, including the constitution, have been claimed to be able of guarding children.

As cited in( Oak Foundation, 2013) still, customs similar as early marriage, womanish genital mutilation, and soliciting continue to affect children in those countries. A child as defined before is a person under the age of 18 under the Child’s Rights Act and the African Children’s Charter. still, in Nigeria differnt laws define children in different ways and for different purposes and as similar children who are supposed to enjoy the Child’s Right Act do not. This has led to both public and transnational uproar with different bodies and transnational associations similar as ECPAT International, Save the Children, UNICEF, International Bureau for Children’s Rights( IBCR), leading the crusade to promote the Child’s Right Act in Nigeria and the world as a whole, though world governments have their part toplay.The government must lead the way in harmonizing the multiple delineations in agreement with transnational and indigenous legislation.

The major way these bodies crusade for the Child’s Right Act is through journalism. intelligencers are veritably important in the Child’s Right Act crusade as they’re the people which information can fluently get across to and from as editorialized by( Boothby 2010). They’re also of topmost precedence because they’re generally the first repliers whenever there’s a case of child abuse or a violation of the Child’s Right Act. therefore their geste towards the CRA is veritably important.

Statement Of The Problem

The Child’s Right Act is always being violated. Issues concerning the Child’s Right Act and its violation is a cause of major concern to the government and Nigeria as a whole. Several cases of Child abuse used by intelligencers and the media as felonious stories are most times defective and substantially depicts the children in a hurtful and dangerous way.

Boothby2010) argues that Child abuse and exploitation cases have grown too common in the media to stay uncommon and newsworthy, according to a rising but fussing opinion in some media circles, this is because of the way most intelligencers present child abuse stories to the public. numerous intelligencers believe that abuse tales no longer carry the shock that they formerly had. In order to achieve effect, new styles and approaches will be needed to reevaluate the way child safety tales are propagated and packaged by the media( Oak Foundation 2013).

Objects Of The Study

The primary end of this study is to estimate the mindfulness and geste of intelligencers in the crusade for Child’s Right Act in Nigeria. Other points of consideration in this exploration are

probe the success of Child Rights Act mindfulness crusade in the Nigeria.

ii. Examine the capability of intelligencers to show or portray the Child Rights Act and its violation successfully

iii. Examine the position of involvement of intelligencers in the crusade for Child Rights Act.

iv. Examine the depiction of Child Rights act and its abuses to the public by intelligencers

Exploration Questions

Is the Child Rights Act mindfulness crusade in Nigeria successful?

ii. Have intelligencers been suitable to show or portray the Child Right’s Act and its violation successfully?

iii. Are intelligencers really involved in crusade for Child Right’s Act?

iv. How are intelligencers and media portraying Child Right’s Acts and its abuses to the public?

Significance Of The Study

This study will be of great benefit to the world of exploration as it’ll serve as a connection to other workshop of affiliated motifs. It’ll also serve as a point of reference to other exploration workshop and unborn studies.

likewise, this work will profit the intelligencers, the associations involved in the Child Rights Act and the entire world and will prop in the mindfulness and enactment of Child Rights act.

Compass Of The Study

This study focuses on the mindfulness and geste of print intelligencers in the Pioneer Newspaper Company Uyo, in the crusade for Child Rights Acts in Nigeria. named intelligencers from this media house are actors in this exploration.

This study will also throw further light on the different juggernauts transnational associations involved in the Child’s Right Act are doing.

Limitation Of The Study

This study is limited to examinations carried out only on print intelligencers and it’s also limited due to the fact that it was carried out out in one print media house therefore these results can not be used by other media houses but can only be used as a reference.

likewise, this exploration is limited because it only focuses on intelligencers and no other group of people. The exploration being carried out in Uyo only also serves as a limitation and the result of this exploration can not be used for other areas.

Description Of Terms

crusade It’s defined as working in an systematized and active way towards a particular thing, generally a political or social bone .

mindfulness Knowledge or perception of a certain fact or situation

Behaviour This is the way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially towards others.